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Db2

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Provide LOBS support for columns over 32kb

There is currently no LOBS support for columns over 32kb in BigSQL Hadoop tables. For column which size is over 32KB, there's a limitation on the DDL when creating the table (maximum size is 32672), hence whole data/string couldn't be retrieved wh...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Future consideration

Db2 exporter

Kindly help build Db2 native and/or Sql based exporter. This exporter should be developed in such a way that It should be non-intrusive & no performance impact to the databases which are being monitored, Similar to nosql db metrics exporter av...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Monitor activities by the user

Regarding DMC capabilities, I would like to know if there is a possibility to monitor activities by the user. This is very important for our Db2 environment, whether qualified or unqualified table names are used (in case of unqualified names would...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 3 Functionality already exists

WLM threshold for used log space

We need an activity threshold to trigger an action whenever a specific activity consumes more than a given amount of transaction log space. I know that there is already some control mechanism by using DB CFG parameters MAX_LOG and NUM_LOG_SPAN , b...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

Looking for ability to specify Data Server Driver and Nuget package for different appls on same .NET server

We are interested in IBM providing the ability to support an application using a Db2 NuGet package for Db2 connectivity and another application using DS Driver or Db2 Client on the same .NET server for compatibility between the Db2 NuGet package f...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 2 Not under consideration

Rebuild BLU columnar dictionaries and recompress data in BLU columnar tables

An engineered capability is required to automatically rebuild an optimal BLU columnar compression dictionary and recompress BLU columnar tables. A technique is needed to easily rebuild and recompress columnar tables like we have for adaptive compr...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration

DB2-LUW: Enable STMM on the HADR Standby

The standby inherits the db parms upon restore. If enabling ROS and running various reports (and other "stuff") on the standby - the memory parms (bufferpools, various heaps, etc) may not be optimal for that workload, but STMM is not altering the ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

page_age_trgt_mcr should be ONLINE configurable

page_age_trgt_mcr is a kind of successor of SOFTMAX and provides the possibility to control the flushing of modified buffer pool pages to table spaces based on time. Unfortunately page_age_trgt_mcr is just configurable, not configurable ONLINE. Th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Force LOAD COPY location with HADR

LOAD COPY files can go anywhere, but when running HADR, they should only go to a shared location. If they do not, then the tables on the standby will be unavailable on failover. Those doing LOADs may not know or understand the impact of this. Ther...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

db2expln stopped working from db2v11.5.7.0 onward on HADR STANDBY

db2expln, doesn't write / update and tables on the database and it was working till db2 v11.5.5 on STANDBY RO enabled, from v11.5.7.0 it stopped working, many time there is a need to check explain out on STANDBY RO enabled
over 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery / Statements (DDL and DML) 6 Functionality already exists