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AIX IOCP activation should be optional(RIMS)

Currently, when you install DB2 10.1 on AIX, it assumes that you want to use IOCP. But not only does it default DB2_USE_IOCP to ON, it also turns on IOCP at the AIX level. Some customers (including us) have bad experiences of IOCP and do not want ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Federated environment;connections to SQL server.(RIMS)

Customer wants to have the 'check connection on open' feature in the DB2 client driver, like it exist on the the AS400 driver (http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246440.pdf, page 55). ? Request was made via PMR and lab's answer was : <...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Torn Data Page Handling / Recovery(RIMS)

We have hit torn page recovery (CBIT inconsistency) issues from time to time. As ext3/4 block I/O occurs in 4K units we feel we are at risk on any tablespace above a 4K page size. We would like to discuss options to improve DB2's handling of parti...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

DB2 HADR takeover improvement if load copy in progress on standby

A load with copy yes is issued on the primary. When finished on the primary, it starts on the standby. At this point, an issue occurs on the primary and a take over is issued on the standby. Because of this take over, the primary becomes standby. ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

DB2 to support multiple network interfaces of a system in a HACMP/PowerHA cluster(RIMS)

Background of this requirement is the issue with db2nodes.cfg having IP/hostname defined different from the systems hostname, which is common definition for many customers in HACMP or PowerHA cluster. Db2nodes.cfg for the database instance gets it...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

GDPC support for PDTX(RIMS)

I opened this under PureScale since I couldn't find PDTX in the product list. State Farm is building out a new environment(Existing +) that is going to require GDPC support. Currently GDPC support is in Purescale but not in PDTX. Sean Hollingsead
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

REORG TABLE INPLACE does not reclaim space if table compression used(RIMS)

Hi DB2 lab, this customer opened PMR 51051,077,649 to investigate why DB2 was not releasing space from some tables when a reorg table inplace was used. The investigation lead to find out that when a table use compression the free space will not be...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

db2look -xd is not extracting all authorization privileges(RIMS)

Customer is complaining that the -xd option of the db2look utility is not generating all authorization DDLs, ast he DB2 Infocenter states, as the implicit privileges given to PUBLIC for selecting on catalog objects is not extracted. Customer is re...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Need complete OS version information from SYSIBMADM.ENV_SYS_INFO(RIMS)

SYSIBMADM.ENV_SYS_INFO currently only provides OS_VERSION and OS_RELEASE. This is insufficient information for OCM customers because it does not tell them the important part of the version number which is the modification levels. For example, here...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

MQTs with REFRESH IMMEDIATE need to allow more flexible definitions(RIMS)

1. MQTs with REFRESH IMMEDIATE need to allow more flexible definitions. To make MQTs feasible for an environment where quick ingest and low data latency is a priority, they cant be REFRESH DEFERRED because of the excessive locking that occurs du...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

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