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Db2

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Add "IF EXISTS" syntax to all DROP statements

More and more SQL is stored in repositories and needs to be applied in odd places and orders. One syntax element that supports this is the "IF EXISTS" on a drop statement. This causes a statement to not count as a failure if it finds no object to ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Db2 LUW support on Windows Server 2022

Please support Windows Server 2022 on v11.5 and vNext. Windows Server 2022 was released in August 2021 and we have consumers wanting to use the latest operating system. End of support for Windows Server 2019 is January 2024 but it takes time for u...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

Db2 LUW support on Ubuntu 22.04

Please support Ubuntu 22.04 on v11.5 and vNext. Ubuntu 22.04 was released in April 2022 and we have consumers wanting to use the latest operating system. End of support for Ubuntu 20.04 is April 2025 but it takes time for us to package, test and d...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

Allow fixed MAXLOCKS value even if LOCKLIST is AUTOMATIC

When LOCKLIST is set to AUTOMATIC, the MAXLOCKS setting cannot be set. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/locklist-and-maxlocks-database-configuration-parameters-and-lock-escalations In general this follows the concept of LOCKLIST AUTOMATIC, but th...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

HADR: Ability to take incremental backups on either host and maintain the incremental chain for restore

In an HADR environment it is not possible to restore / recover the database with backups which are taken from both sites of the HADR cluster (after takeovers). You have to use the backups from the one site or from the other site. You can't mix the...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Application connections storm slow downs the DB response

I've been assisting with an ecommerce site. During typical days, let's say non-peak/low volume of orders, the DB response is always good. However, the DB response time slows down for a few seconds, notably during peak season/high amount of orders....
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Future consideration

Redirected Restore on STANDBY for STOGROUP expansion

Case number: TS008472518 Our database was 42TB and the file system were 45TB across 12 file systems. I wanted to expance the total storage to TB by adding 12 additional file systems. I took a backup and did a re-directed restore on standby with 24...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Lift the restriction for max 8 charaters in database name

The restriction of a maximum of 8 characters in a database name should be lifted to something more adequate for todays devops pipelines, say 32, 64 or even 128 chars. There is a need to give databases a more descriptive name than what is possible ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Db2 LUW support on Alma 8

Request is to certify Db2 LUW on Alma Linux 8 as the replacement for CentOS. Research indicates: RedHat announced that they are replacing Centos 7 and 8 with Alma Linux. There will not be a Centos 9. RedHat announced that they are replacing Centos...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

TIMESTAMP with TIMEZONE

Competitive databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQL Server along with others have data type TIMESTAMP with TIME ZONE but LUW does not. Our own DB2 on z/OS starting version V11.0 has TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 2 Future consideration