IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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In-memory metrics support for (container map reorg stats)(RIMS)

Customer would like to move away from Snapshot monitoring (they hit issues recently where Snapshot latches were holding up other work on the system) but cannot because some information is not yet available via in-memory metrics table functions. Cu...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Method to prevent DB2 from modifying operating system tunables; print diag msg instea(RIMS)

Goldman Sachs deploys hundreds of db2 database instances. Many of these instances are configured to consume predefined resources in a system shared with other instances or dbms' or applications. In many cases, these instances are duplexed via QRep...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Allow customers ability to limit number LOAD utility errors(RIMS)

Customer has situations where LOAD utilities attempt to insert large numbers of duplicate records. This results in the log files filling up and stopping all DB2 requests until the entire LOAD is rolled back. In this customer's case the rollback(s)...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Synchronize HISTORY file with the TSM server object list.(RIMS)

Since the objects on the TSM server are expired remotely, DB2 is not aware of this because the local HISTORY file does not sync with TSM. What we are requesting is a method to synchronize DB2's HISTORY file with the TSM server object list. This wi...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

BACKUP/RESTORE should provide support for external objects.(RIMS)

when customer archives backup images (they have to keep 7 years worth of trade data), they must manually archive non-data objects (such as function/procedure definitions, libraries, and other things required for the database to run properly). � ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Ability to backup/clone a database across the network (redirected restore)(RIMS)

Verizon needs the capability to issue a set write suspend IO command on database. Get the data to another instance at another location and bring it up. Informix has this ability and Verizon likes it. This is called a redirected restore. Verizon's ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

RESTORE fails with SQL30082N RC=3 if an LDAP database with the same name already exists in Active Directory(RIMS)

Restore fails with 'SQL30082N Security processing failed with reason '3' ('PASSWORD MISSING')' when there's still a database with the same name in the Windows Active Directory but on another server.The restore completes when the other db is uncata...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Optimizer documentation needs enhancement(RIMS)

Optimizer documentation needs enhancement. Until a lab services consultant came onsite to help them they were not able to adequately tune their queries due to poor optimizer documentation. Benefit: Verizon is now a very big user of DB2 and we spen...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

LOCK ESCALATION: Ability to specify table-level lock-escalation criteria.(RIMS)

Customer wants more granularity on lock-escalation semantics. currently, lock escalation occurs either when an application hit's the MAXLOCKS constraint, or when the database LOCKLIST becomes full. Since lock-escalation is more detrimental on tabl...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

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...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

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