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Db2

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Improvements in db2relocatedb tool.

Database relocation in DB2 (db2relocatedb) – is a nightmare. It's a total black box, which executes in an offline and non-recoverable mode. Nobody knows if it's succeeded (even when it returns successful execution message) or failed or when it r...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Alter of the base table is blanking the profile of the View

In here the Alter of the base table is blanking the profile of the View in the Packed descriptor. If the schema of the tables in the statistical view definition appears in the SQL then the runstats fails telling us that we invoked runstats with a ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

To enable DB2 stored procedure module refresh in online.

Hello, I am a Client IT Architect in IBM Japan. My customer is NTT Data, a large System Integrator in Japan. NTT Data has gotten the contract with National Tax Agency in Japan in June 2015. They have a plan to develop applications of National Tax ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Build spatial functions for Banco do Brasil

Banco do Brasil needs the following functions on DB2: Compound Line String and Oriented Point, functions that are part of the ISO 13249 They sent us the link to compare the functionality against Oracle: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B19306_01/appdev.1...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Spatial 0 Not under consideration

New admin view to retrieve the object characteristics

Add a new admin view ADMIN_ALL_OBJECTS to retrieve the object type and characteristics from any objects
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Codepage SERVER option for DRDA Wrapper and IBM DB2 data sources of Federation Server

When the code point size differs between the federated database and the remote data source, you can get truncated data returned or insertion or update failures. For DB2 datasources (DRDA Wrapper) we need to manually adjust nickname column size or ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Online remove member

Request to support online member removal from pureScale
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 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

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

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...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration