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Db2

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Improve poor query compilation performance due to long lock list traversal in DB2 10.1 and later

Beginning with DB2 LUW 10.1 DGTT-referencing DML started to take catalog locks and therefore we have to free them and potentially traverse long lock chain if the DML is a part of a long-running transaction potentially holding millions of locks. Th...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Facility to monitor and control Accelerated threads

need for monitoring and controlling accelerated threads like is currently available with db2 threads using RLF
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW to have option to ignore QUERYNO clause of SQL on DB2 z/OS

The client has many SQL for z/DB2 production environment with QUERYNO clause like the following sample.    SELECT /* Comment */           A_ID,           A_NAMEÂ&n...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Reorg: Improve Lock Contention

Enhance Reorg:--> Reorg ... allow read access with range partitioned tables--> Options to avoid lock timeouts ---> specify max time for swap phase, restart delay for non-succeeding swap phase, deadline for reorg completion ---> allow i...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

pureScale async duplexing to secondary CF

CMB is planning to use GDPC in 2 sites which distance is about 50km. The round-trip response time is about 400 microseconds, so the delay on transfer to 2nd CF is too expensive.
about 10 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 2 Not under consideration

Ability to append to a file when performing an export

When exporting data to files, every export should be in a different file. And it the business requirement is to have all data in the same file, then it is necessary to do that manually with something external to db2.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Solaris client in Db2 v11.5

Db2 dropped the support for Solaris in V11.5, which is fine for server. However, many clients who run in Solaris could connect to other server (Linux, windows, AIX).
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

More heavy use of fetch first n rows to optimize the statement

see attachments (error of the server when submitting the RFE)
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Change PureScale GPFS NSD Name at installation time

The Network Shared Disk (NSD) default names are created using the db2icrt command can't be changed at installation time. There is no stanza file to change the NSD default nomenclature.Our payment for our customers refers to unique "vgnames". This ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Online move CF/Member for pureScale

Online move CF/Member to new machine
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration