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Db2

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Reorg blocking applications when using "allow write access"

While an "allow write acces" online reorg is running lock-wait contention can happen based on the number of rows being updated by an application. The locks for the application can escalate to lock an x lock. If this situation happens, the reorg sh...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to upload Db2 transaction log files to TSM that had been moved manually by DBA

We use Db2 log archiving to TSM servers. No failover archive path has been set yet. Under rare circumstances we faced situations where log archiving to TSM does not work or slows down and the active log path fills up. To prevent disk full situatio...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Increase the db2 licence limit for the DMC repository db.

16 VPC is a 2 VP value based on my server.(2core) I have more than 15 DBs to monitor, but the licence limit makes it difficult to increase the CPU. I apologize for the lack of clarity in my explanation. The bundled DB2 license for the DMC repos...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Not under consideration

When setting 'DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=ORA' in non-ora DB, the resulting string length is different.

when it's going to setup "db2set DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=ORA"~ $ db2set DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=ORA$ db2stop force03/27/2023 18:05:52 0 0 SQL1064N DB2STOP processing was successful.SQL1064N DB2STOP processing was successful.$ db2start03/27/2023 ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Change replace System-defined in db2 luw to consider NLS characters in search.

Wrong result when executing the replace function with certain characters in the codeset euc-kr DB. (It comes out fine for utf-8 DB, but not for euc-kr.) Case No : TS012082536 *L3 team comment* ##################################################### ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

DMC - "Other Waits" detail graphic needs to be dynamic and smarter

DMC v3.1.12 decided to create a fixed bucket named "Other Times" under "Other Waits" main category on Database Time Spent monitor page.. Please see attached screen-shot. In the main graphic, we can see "other Waits" is the most contributor. And in...
12 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Please add buffering for LOBs

Please add buffering for LOBs
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Data Types / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to keep configuration parameters in sync on HADR standby databases

Currently configuration parameter changes (db2set, dbm cfg and db cfg) on HADR primary database do not propogate to the standby databases. Having an optional clause or switch to propogate the config changes will ensure that on failover to standby ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

DMC alert on timeout , deadlock

it would be useful to have an alert that sends an alert message as soon as a timeout or deadlock appears in the db2diag.log (ex: error message ADM5506W)
2 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Warning error code for Db2 tablespace architecture limit

If Db2 tablespace reaches architecture limit of 90%, then there should be a Warning Message write into db2diag.log, so that before it is reaching 100% of Db2 tablespace architecture limit, this can be fixed. Now we are monitoring through a SQL...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 2 Not under consideration