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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

mixed case sensitive support for db2 luw on linux platform

On linux and other Unices, connecting to db2 luw with users having capital letters into their user name is not possible since the db2 security components, I guess the standard OS security plugin, assume that usernames are all lower cases.This beha...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Remove 8.3 file name support requirement on Windows for DB2 install

When installing to a directory with a space in the file name, legacy 8.3 file name support must be enabled on the disk volume otherwise nothing happens on the install and no DB2 log file is created. The default install directory that Tivoli Storag...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

SQLTIMEOUT during FileNet CM metadata creation operations

A SQL_TIMEOUT is experienced when executing multiple SQL statements in a pureScale environment. This does not happen in a non-pureScale environment and when pureScale is configured with only 1 active node. The PMR mentioned has a multitude of data...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

optimizer choice when comparing plans in DPF

DB2 does not identify the tables as collocated even though they exist on the same set of db partitions because they reside in different database partition groups. The optimizer doesn't always make a good choice when comparing plans in DPF. With th...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration