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Db2

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Allow exclusion of columns from row compression to reduce overflows on updates

We have many large tables in our data warehouse that hold historized data records. There are four date columns:- begin of visibility based on processing time (BAT_BEGIN)- end of visibility based on processing time (BAT_END)- begin of visibility ba...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

alter package explain no / yes

Allow to change the explain option of a package using alter package or rebind package
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Hibernate dialect / optimize for 1 rows

Allow / work with the hibernate community to add the clause optimize for 1 rows in the hibernate db2 dialect.
about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Regulation of the transport objects by data source per pureScale cluster within the JVM.

This requirement was raised in the old IBM requirement system in 2011. The requirement id was R2PRO00006740. The connection from JVM(WebSphere) connection pool- JCC driver - Global transport pool into the agent of UDB pure scale. The requirement i...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

make db2.o and db2_64.o (odbc usage) part of the distribution and updates/upgrades

The information center documents how to extract shr.o of shr_64.o and move it to db2.o or db2_64.o. 'http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_10.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.apdv.cli.doc/doc/t0010406.html?cp=SSEPGG_10.5.0%2F4-0-1-1-4-2 .luw.apd...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

deferring index creation with an option to not have to log the rebuild

This was originally opened in Aug 2013 RIMS database (as 8556) In Aug 2013 one of the ids-System customers, an insurance company, had to do an offline table reorg, which had to rebuild index at the end. This is an HADR customer, so index is fully ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Database sharding

The customer is considering to deploy multi-active system cross multiple sites, the distance among sites might be more than 1000km. The data could be distributed by hash, and rarely cross site data access by transaction/query. DPF might be a good ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance of DB2 BLU

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about 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Automate life cycle management of data

For the most OLTP system, some table only keep data for a period of time. We are looking for support to automate the management of this by DB2, ie. auto-prune older data.
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Change output from command GET DBM CFG

The output from the command 'get dbm cfg' without the option 'show detail' is misleading in that in shows the 'wrong' values for parameters that have been changed but needs an instance restart. It could be solved by changing the output to use the ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration