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Db2

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Allow a DBA connection even if maximum connections has been exceeded.(RIMS)

Note from customer: Jill, We need a feature enhancement, where there is a way for a DBA to always be able to connect to the DB (at least one connection), even if maxappls, maxagents, maxwhatever has been hit. DBAs shouldnt have to force off appli...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

BACKUP/RESTORE should support parallelcompression of backupstripes when using native compress option(RIMS)

Headline Cont...(thisiscurrentlysingle-threadpertablespace).Description -currently, Backup will fetch from multiple tablespaces using multiple concurrent prefetcher sub-agents. However when Backup Compression is enabled, data is forced through Bac...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Certify DB2 10.1 FP 4 with using XLC V12.1

The customer, Mizuho Bank, will use DB2 10.1 FP 4 with using XLC V12.1 in the project "Next Generation System - Main Hub" from May 2015. The customer uses both DB2 10.1 FP 4 and XLC V12.1 as their standard version in thier other projects, and cann...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Improvement in the command get diagnostics

Improve the command get diagnostics command so that we can access through variables to the following information : - the statement SQL text - the package name, stored procedure specific name- the instance name, database name- the value of the host...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

CONTROL requirement for LOAD utility with REPLACE oprion on LBAC tables

Product: DB2 UDB V10.1Problem: LOAD uitility requiring to have CONTROL/DROP on table with LBAC security control when using LOAD REPLACE option. Description: our application team uses load utility with REPLACE option extesnively and with implementi...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Codepage option for db2move

Andrew Adams from DB2 Support suggested us to submit an RFE as we are looking for options to specify explicit codepage setting for export/import operation. Please refer PMR 36186,7TD for more information or contact adamsand@us.ibm.com or myself (V...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Report execution time in the clp command

Add a new options to the clp commanbd to report the time executions of the SQL commands
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

New access path for faster first fetch with a good global time

Firstly, I don't know if it is possible. We can encounter this following performance issue : select on a big table with an order by. Depending on the statistics, we can have list prefetchs on an index. If the index is very big, we have to wait a l...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Create join indexes in DB2

Enable to create a join index like SYBASE.. Note that it could be great to join row stored tables with column stored tables.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Aggregate activity monitor

Add a table to the activity monitor for aggregating the data by statement text or section
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration