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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

Change the mapping of a timestamp with timezone from varchar to a Db2 timezone for a Postgres database source

Currently the timestamp with timezone in a Postgres source database is mapped to a varchar and that limits how you can query and manage it. Other data sources map this data type to a timestamp allowing for normal processing using the various time ...
3 months ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Submitted

Improve SQL0293N when creating database on 4K sector size disk

On CREATE DATABASE db2 reports a very generic error message SQL0293N when there is a write access to a 4K sector size disk. Instead should do a check when creating containers e.g. read 512 bytes, if this does not work, read 4K block. If 4K block c...
3 months ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Future consideration

Log Failed LOADS in db history file

Please refer to IBM CASE TS012541333 for further details Db2 database history file registers several SUCCESS and FAILED operations. If a backup has been executed, and if it failed or completed ok . if a restore has been done, and if it failed or c...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 3 Not under consideration

DR Capability for DMC

Hello, We would like to have DR capability for DMC. So that, it would be helpful for us to monitor the DBs when there is a full or partial site failure.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

MON_GET_CONNECTION missing the application idle time

MON_GET_CONNECTION table function is documented to be the replacement of deprecated snapshot function SNAPAPPL, but it misses a key value, which is supplied by the old (deprecated) function. SNAPAPPL delivers the application idle time (APPL_IDLE_T...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 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 .
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Future consideration

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
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration