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    Tenant level recoverability : The ability to take backups and restore at the tenant level

    If Namespace Separation is going to be used for lots of test/dev databases, people would need to be able to do backup/restore of their own tenants.
    12 months ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

    Include CTQ reason / details in db2exfmt advanced diagnostics

    We need an "Extended Diagnostic Information" in Explain (db2exfmt) that details if and why the column organized tables had been (early) converted to the row format for processing it in the row engine. This is important to detect performance issues...
    about 3 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

    Turn on reclaimable storage without dropping/recreating the tablespaces

    After a migration from db2 9.5 to 10.1, several days passed, and we reached the maximum size of a DMS tablespace of 4K. We moved one table to a different tablespace, but still noticed that the free pages were equal to 0. We tried to execute the al...
    almost 11 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

    HADR/Pacemaker for AIX

    While HADR/Pacemaker for Linux is available, Pacemaker for AIX is not availabe and needed now to avoid a hold-up in our adoption of Db2 vNext.
    over 2 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

    Restore database to another Db2 server with different endianness

    My customer is using RHEL Big Endian Linux on PPC and Db2 10.5 which is end of support April 30, 2020. They have no option but to migrate to RHEL Little Endian. They cannot simply backup and restore the database and are looking at using Db2move wh...
    almost 7 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

    Review automatic prefetch

    This IDEA it to request a more dynamic management of PREFETCHSIZE when it is set to AUTOMATIC. The documentation states: "The database updates the prefetch size automatically whenever the number of containers in a table space changes (following su...
    about 3 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

    dmctop for zLinux

    We have several Db2 LUW running on zLinux. Because dmctop is not compatible with zLinux, we're still using db2top but would like to explore new functionalities/features offered in dmctop. Just to clarify: Currently, dmctop does not work on zLinux ...
    over 3 years ago in Db2 7 Not under consideration

    Have option to stop and start the VIP on specific db node when Pacemaker instance is in maintenance mode

    We have a customer which uses VIP extensively for in their current environment (TSA/HADR) and have ability to stop, start and move VIP at will.This helps them extensively with near zero downtime during the database refresh process (very frequent p...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

    Provide a documented and supported procedure to generate ddl (db2look as SP - like db2lk_generate_ddl)

    db2lk_generate_ddl is a stored procedure that provides functionality to generate DDL via SQL (similar to db2look which is a tool as db2llok cannot be executed througha SQL client tool. This function already exists but is not documented and I am no...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

    Please create current training material for Db2 administration

    Please create basic training material for database administrators on Db2 that is easily consumable and free. A platform like EDx, Udemy, etc, would be ideal, but even on a proprietary platform would be acceptable.
    about 7 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

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