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Db2

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lock table partition in xxx mode

In batch jobs, to avoid lock escalation, customer needs to lock a table partition in exclusive mode, and run dml against this partition.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Update an Oracle table thru Fed Server

Since we have chinese characters in db2, we need to have default sorting by pinyin. Therefore, we can only add Collating sequence (CLDR181_LZH) when creating the db. However, when we use Federation Server which connect to Oracle, I can't use strin...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Load using Sockets or RDMA

In pureScale environment, it will be very advantageous to use DB2 load from sockets in addition to pipes.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Infosphere Federation Server support for REST/Json

We have Federation Server 10.5 and trying to connect to one of our data source. The service available is REST/Json. We want some support in federating to rest/json from our federation server. The web service wrapper available in the federation ser...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Use encryption of user and password for client/server communication as default

Default value of the dbm cfg AUTHENTICATION parameter is SERVER. Also the jdbc/jcc driver does not encrypt the user and password values in a connection by default. Two solution options:1. change default value for dbm cfg authentication from SERVER...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Profiling for athorities and privileges

Often application owners/developers do not exactly know which authorities (like LOAD) and privileges (like read on syscat tables) are needed on a database for the application workload. It would be helpful to have a method to capture the privileges...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Standby IDs should be

db2pd does not show corresponding STANDBY_ID on standby servers when using multiple standbys.For example: Invoking db2pd on the PRIMARY database shows the STANDBY_ID's (1=PRINCIPAL, 2 and 3 = AUX), invoking the db2pd on the related STANDBY's does ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Remove the restriction SQL1407N

When loading a table using a remote cursor on a table containing an XML colum, the load failed with the SQLCODE SQL1407N.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Index for a subset of rows

Possibility to index only specific rows of one or more columns. This could be implemented with a WHERE clause in the index create statement and would rsult in a tiny index for exactly the rows you are interested in.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

New HADR with SQL apply

Design a new HADR option / way of working : The log records sending works on the same principle that the actual HADR but the apply of the changes is like the apply task of the SQL / QReplication.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration