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Db2

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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

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

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

Asynchronous activation

Design a new db2 database configuration variable to put the database available very quickly following an ACTIVATE command. As far as I understand, the database activation can last a long time due to the control of the tablespaces. It will be inter...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Partitioned Indices Order Preservation and Performance

GTECH is in the lottery and gaming business. They use DB2 as a competitive advantage in their offering. They are an IBM SW Reseller. They are always looking at new ways to leverage DB2, DB2 Blu, DB2 Merge/Backup,IBM Replication IIDR, to gain compe...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Enable DB2 instances on AUFS (Docker)

DB2 can be installed on AUFS, but database instances cannot be created (see https://github.com/jeffbonhag/db2-docker/issues/2#issuecomment-52920986). DB2 express (and every other edition) uses O_DIRECT to access the file system, which is not avail...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

REFRESH_INTERVAL configurable

No description provided
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Db2 WLM to enable it to prioritize access to physical I/O

We have a Db2 AESE 11.1 fp4a mixed use (but no column tables) data warehouse on an AIX 7.2 LPAR that is limited to 75K IOPS by NetApp. When the threshold is met, high priority OLTP queries submitted by our 1000 retail store POS systems can hang in...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration