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Db2

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Online remove member

Request to support online member removal from pureScale
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Add a new security role to read the logs

Add a new security privileges to allow and restrict the log reads and history file.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration

Bufferpool Purge without database deactivation

Ability to purge the bufferpools (perhaps specified by bufferpool name) without deactivating the entire database. While dirty pages can be flushed from bufferpools with the flush bufferpools command, the bufferpools cannot be entirely purged witho...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Document the client_prdid for each Fix Pack release of db2jcc.jar and db2jcc4.jar drivers

When Java applications connect to DB2 via the JDBC Type 4 JCC driver, the only version-specific identifier visible from the DB2 server (via an application snapshot) is the client product ID of the driver, such as JCC03000. This value is currently ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

Display server uptime in db2start summary written to db2diag.log

In addition to details about CPU and RAM that are currently reported in db2diag.log during db2start, include the server uptime duration.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

To remove tablespace maintenance restrictions on pureScale

To remove all the restrictions of SQL1419N Reason code = "11" on pureScale. 11 Altering database containers is not supported in a DB2 pureScale environment. As a result, the following clauses are not supported with the ALTER TABLESPACE statement i...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 2 Functionality already exists

Control query parallelism by estimated SQL cost

Competing products (Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server) provide the ability to configure query optimizer in a way that it considers using query parallelism only when query complexity exceeds the configured threshold. DB2 lacks that capability, ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

In DPF env Robust single result set for the ALL SQL statistics categories

Memory metrics got introduced in V9.7 and got strong in 10.5. But in DPF there is none of metrics that can report similar to “get snapshot for application agentid global” which returns a single value for all necessary statistics reported in sn...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Transform relational data in a JSON document

Add a feature to transform the relational data in a JSON document. Maybe something simplest than xquery should be developed. For example, hierarchy in a JSON document matches with the relational dependencies (parent - dependent - dependent ) . So ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / NoSQL 0 Not under consideration

HADR+F2PC

The customer uses Federation to access tables between two DB2 databases. DB2 V9.7. There is Q Rep and HADR in place and no issues reported for past few years. Now the customer upgraded the instance to version 10.5.Once the databases were migrated,...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration