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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...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Support for imbedded SQL comments in DBRMs and SYSIBM.SYSPACKSTMT

Full support of imbedded SQL comments in DB2 DBRMs and SYSIBM.SYSPACKSTMT
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Runstats report only

Add the option report to the runstats utility to display the up to date statistics without updating the catalog tables
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Online.log could also print session detail of additional memory segment allocation

In high usage OLTP systems, it is a hard work to identify which session(s) is(are) demanding too much memory from the Informix engine.A good thing for us to help to identify abnormal programs execution/behaviour would be to print session details (...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

DB2 DSNTIJPM catmaint update

The pre migration job DSNTIJPM should check for catalog integrity As far as i can count we have got 11 special catmaint update PTF's with hold data in V 10 the DSNTIJPM job should check if all this special caytmaint updates have been solved before...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve performance of DB2 BLU SQL with the GROUP BY subquery

Our customer newly built the DWH system using DB2 BLU.But certain SQL's performance is extremely bad.Problem SQLs are with the GROUP BY subquery and the SET clause subselect.STSC says it‘s a matter of architecture, not a problem and they offered...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Planned for future release

Error DIA3202C in db2diag.log does not include database name

getting an error in db2diag.log that a connection to a database ist not possible because of a TCP/IP call does not work. In our case a connection to a remote database should be established, which was already dropped. But there is no database name ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 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.
over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

alter package explain no / yes

Allow to change the explain option of a package using alter package or rebind package
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

New feature to have FORCE_DDL_EXEC functionality for all DDL changes

The 12.10 manual states that the FORCE_DDL_EXEC environment variable can be used "to force out other transactions that have opened or have locks on the tables involved in an ALTER FRAGMENT ON TABLE operation". We'd like to see this functionality e...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration