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Db2

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Externel table support for: parquet, orc (big data formats)

Currently a DB2 external table support file formats like: CSV nad TXT; and there is also support for external cloud locations like S3, COS, Azure. The option to load data directly from a cloud data lake in hadoop file formats like: parquet, orc, a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / NoSQL 1 Future consideration

Stop requiring Db2 to be run in a --privileged container

Using the ibmcom_db2 docker image, even when adding a license to it, or installing licensed Db2 to a container based on a supported O/S requires running in a docker container with the --privileged switch. This is not a good practice and cannot be ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Enhance db2move to use remote LOAD from CLIENT

For migration of on premise Db2 database to a cloud service, the usability of db2move would help a lot.For now you have to use manual LOAD commands to load data for each single table to the Db2 on cloud service.db2move can be used from the on prem...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Add Federation support for Apache Cassandra

Officially support and optimize performance from Federation (Db2 Linux/Unix/Windows) server to Apache Cassandra databases. We need to support as many data sources as possible as the move towards non-homogeneous data ingestion continues.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

Adaption for Setup on Openshift (incl. Helm Chart)

IBM already publishes the DB2 DMC as docker file for hosting with docker. We wrote a simple deployment script for installing the image on Openshift. Currently we experience some problems there and debugging is not easy in this setup. So for easier...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

VARCHAR_FORMAT REORG

Please add function VARCHAR_FORMAT in the WHEN statement of a REORG.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Add generated always for each row on update as row change SESSION_USER

Currently exists in Db2 to change current timestamp on INSERT and UPDATE with generated statement like: create table myschema.mytable (id int, last_timestamp timestamp not null generated always for each row on update as row change timestamp) inser...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Improved Db2 backup thread (db2bm and db2med) binding/distribution on NUMA systems

On a large NUMA systems with a very fast storage and a fast backup target memory affinity might affect backup time as well as the overall system performance during the activity. Currently, with the Db2's automatic thread NUMA binding (DB2_RESOURCE...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

CSV or Delimited result set function in SQL

My result set final format needs to be CSV. It would be awesome if I could use SELECT CSV(*) FROM TABLEA to return my result set as a column of CSV format. so for instance I have a requirement to produce a csv file of variable record lengths SELEC...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 0 Future consideration

DMC format for time metrics needs to be smarter for values bellow ms range

This started as a discussion in IBM Db2 community. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/hybriddatamanagement/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=2983&MessageKey=8802cd2f-d91d-46aa-a114-aa6cc5ec88df&CommunityKey=e...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

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