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Poor performance on DB2 V11.1 due to changes in build process

Some customers are noticing performance degradations moving from v105 ESE to v111 ESE on the same hardware.These degradations are most pronounced in OLTP workloads, with an emphasis on INSERT and UPDATE operations. Db2 Support has confirmed that t...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Support DB2 DPF with Pacemaker

Problem Statement / Real-Life Scenario We are using IBM Db2 DPF in a high-availability environment with Pacemaker. In our environment, each DPF member uses a dedicated 10Gb network for inter-member communication. However, when configuring netname ...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Reads on Standby on DB2 BLU

Customer would like Reads on Standby when using HADR for Column-organized tables (BLU) . This way customer can split specifics workload between Primary and Standby. It's an old DB2_HADR_ROS restriction that should already be "fixed" in newer DB2 r...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Optimization profile

Description: This request is to provide an optimization profile that may be applied at the DB layer, i.e., meaning no application code would need to be modified to use the profile, and the profile is configurable to where no instance recycle (star...
over 2 years ago in Db2 3 Planned for future release

Please add the ability to track the progress of a Db2 Bridge LOAD operation

At present, the Db2 Bridge client does not offer a method to monitor the progress of a LOAD operation when performing a db2file_db2 data transfer.
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Bridge 1 Under review

Generating monitor report by schema name in Data Management Console

When creating monitor reports in DMC, the granularity for reports is the whole database, e.g. reports can be generated only at the database level. If there are several schemas in the same database, the abbility to generate reports at the schema le...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review

Db2 on Cloud should provide the same redundancy/HA capability in the HADR nodes as it does on the primary nodes.

Db2 on IBM Cloud provide consumers with BCDR capabilities by allowing one or more HADR instances to be created in various regions and provides a simple push-button promotion process to affect DR fail-over/fail-back operations. However, when runnin...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

purescale support HADR ROS

System: DB2 LUW pureScale Actor: User needing HADR read of standby on pureScale environment Now db2 V10.5 and above had provided HADR component for pureScale but missed Read of standby feature. Description: some customer had used HADR ROS feature ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

Parameter 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' in Db2 LUW similar to Db2 z/OS

in Db2 z/OS there is a 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' parameter. We will need a similar parameter for Db2 LUW. Background: Our datawarehouse application 'IDH' uses many Bi-Temporal tables. An update of any row in the source system will lead to the logical t...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Automatic Table Partition Creation and Purging Based on Date Expressions

I propose the addition of a native feature in Db2 LUW for automatic table partition management based on a date or timestamp column. Specifically: Automatic Partition Creation: Allow users to define partitioning expressions (e.g., daily, monthly, y...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Future consideration