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Advanced Network compression for DB2 HADR

Advanced data compression in network technique provide a way to convert data into alternate data formats which use less size. These techniques can be helpful to compress data to be transmitted over network at the sending side and then convert back...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Replication 3 Not under consideration

db2adutl to report the size of objects stored on TSM

db2adutl to report the size of objects stored on TSM Determining the size of a DB2 backup object https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/determining-size-db2-backup-object describes a workaround for the missing functionality in db2adutl. It should be ab...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Avoiding 0C7 on UNLOAD from FIC when structure has changed

Hi all, To explain what the idea I'm going to explain the "issue" In a project, we add to drop a column from a table. To do that on multiple environment we use automation tool. The tool drop/create the object without unloading data. So to correct ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Use package collection other than NULLID for CLP and Db2 Utilities

Db2/zOS colleagues want to get rid of lock issues with rebind of packages in schema NULLID, thus the decided to have Db2/zOS release specific package collections to provide actual and rebound packages for every Db2 release to the distributed (Db2/...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Add new STATUS codes to SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE to reflect different states of the tablespace

This would provide the requestor who wants to do a one stop shopping when looking for a state such as Advisory Reorg of all the tablespaces in that state.
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

API call to retrieve patch/fix information for any product

Currently we have to check for the existence of any new fixes for all vendor products we support. This is a manual process which is time consuming. Additionally the information requested for compliance doesn't exactly match up with what we can ret...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Refresh Command for External Fenced Routines

For our external Stored Procedures (written in Cobol, PL/1, C) we need 1. the flexibility of keepfenced=no to get changes in shared-objects active (i.e: in case of hotfixes) without a restart of db2.2. the speed of keepfenced=yes, because by the s...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Db2Warehouse on Cloud temporary tablespaces

・Db2Warehouse on Cloud temporary tablespaces ・ Function improvement request target: Db2Warehouse on Cloud ・ Request A specific SQL process causes the entire DB to stop. I want you to improve this. ・ Details If SQL that uses a lot of temporar...
about 3 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Update SYSMON_GROUP Authority to include privileges needed for db2top (and other monitoring type functions)

Revisit db2top and dcmtop access requirements to identify the basic monitoring features which require privileges above and beyond sysmon_group privileges and update Db2 to have the sysmon_group given all necessary permissions
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Not under consideration

db2logscan should be able to read compressed logs

The utility db2logscan, which is now bundled with Db2 is not able to read compressed logs. So with compressed logs we cannot estimate the recommended sync settings for HADR.
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration