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LOAD with COPY=YES and TSM needs similar resilience feature like log archiving with VENDOR_ARCHIVE_TIMEOUT

FI has set of LOAD jobs (with COPY=YES and use of TSM) which run in parallel against the Db2 data warehouse.FI experienced failing LOAD jobs in the LAN-free TSM backup environment for the Db2. FI sees risk for the LOAD jobs when TSM is not availab...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

ITC tables for pureScale

ITC are very useful to have table that have large batch deletes on it. Then space reclaim is a quite easy and fast task using REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS ONLY.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN for BLU tables

ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN is not yet supported on BLU tables.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Planned for future release

External Tables support on Windows

I went to use this marvelous feature on windows.. and for my surprise external tables are not implemented for this platform :-( (v11.5) Why ? Please, add support for external tables usage on windows hosts as well .
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Future consideration

Please replace "password rules" by "password evaluations"

When installing DB2 for GKLM, I am asked to provide a passwords (DB2 and Application), that contains 2 digits, a special, an upper-case and a lower-case character. I tell customers about "quantum safe", long passwords and using special characters....
3 months ago in Db2 / Security 1 Submitted

Fill gap with Oracle optimizer on RP tables

DB2 optimizer in v10.5/v11.1 has still several weaknesses in generating correct plan when using RP tables, because it bases its plan only on global stats when partition (data and indexes) stats are available. Case TS001150102
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration

DB2 for z/OS: Ability to Retrieve Output SP Parameters Into Global Variables in Dynamic CALL

Add the ability to retrieve output and inout parameter values into global variables in dynamic stored procedure calls. Need this functionality for DB2 for z/OS. Apparently, it already exists for DB2 LUW.
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Submitted

Control loadbalancing type of db2u-c service in Kubernetes

DB2 only offers nodePort for external exposure. However it would be natural to be able to control the loadbalcing type (i.e. ClusterIP by default, but allow for LoadBalancer). Additionally it would be favourable to place annotations on the service...
3 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Allow modification of column-organized columns

Currently, in column-organized tables you cannot alter or rename columns and you even cannot drop columns. The only allowed operation is to add a column. This renders the column-based-tables pretty useless because in a normal environment, it must ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

We should expand the maximum size of a LOB object per table or table partition

Enhance Maximum size of a LOB object per table or per table partition (in terabytes) 4 -> 8,16,32,64,128
7 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Submitted