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Depth First By /Breadth First By support in Recursive CTE

Oracle user can order of the rows by the SEARCH clause of Recursive Common Table Expression. There are two methods, BFS and DFS. For easy application migration, this feature should be enabled.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

EXIT, GOTO, CONTINUE in a Exception block (PLSQL)

Oracle PLSQL supports EXIT, GOTO and CONTINUE in a exception block, but Db2 doesn't. For higher migration convenience, Please support them.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Control of Locksize and Maxpartitions for implicitly defined tablespaces.

We must be able to control parameters like locksize and maxpartitions on implicitly defined tablespaces.In DB2 V12R1M504 multi table tablespaces are deprecated, so we need to use implicitly defined tablespaces for QMF useres. Today we use segmente...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Allow public alias in export/import command

Db2 11.1 says that Public aliases can be used only in SQL statements and with the LOAD utility. (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPGG_11.1.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.sql.ref.doc/doc/r0000910.html) Please support export and import utilities...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

LUW

Archive-enabled tables and archive tables features not available in DB2 LUW. If this function get added in new version of DB2 LUW or new fixpack release it will help for archive huge table..
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Support GROUPING SETS and SUPER GROUPS by IDAA

Because GROUPING SETS and SUPER GROUPS are not supported by IDAA, the sqls that contain these features canot be accelerated. Please see also pmr 06487,999,756 I opened it by mistake under LUW. I opened a new idea under DB2 for z/Os with identifi...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 1 Not under consideration

Remove serialization when using DB2 Federation to access a delimited file

If you define multiple nicknames in DB2 federation server that access a delimited file, they are serialized thru a common 'channel' that accesses the file resulting is long elapse times event through there are system resources available. Please re...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Fluid Query 1 Not under consideration

Operation guarantee for DB2 v11.1 Federation Server

System DB2 v11.1 Federation ServerRequest: Provide operation guarantee for Oracle NET client 12.2.0.1 for Data Source Oracle Database 11gR2(11.2.0.3) URL: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27049211 ---------------------12 One of th...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

TO_MULTI_BYTE (oracle function)

It is required for higher oracle sql compatibility,
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

PIVOT/UNPIVOT (oracle function)

It is required for higher oracle sql compatibility,
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration