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Db2

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ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE should immediately fail or at least warn when source table is ineligible for SWAP

Even after upgrading the database to Db2 V11.5 and beyond, older tables with check constraints and/or generated columns that were created before V9.7 will still cause the SWAP phase of ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE to fail with SQL0668N reason code 10. The und...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

dmctop - add interval and samples for background data collection

Like db2top, dmctop needs the capability to collect data using -i (interval in seconds) and -s (number of samples) when collecting data in background mode (-b).
11 months ago in Db2 / DMCtop 0 Not under consideration

Number of Occurrences for Alert

Alerts need to have the option to set a consecutive number of ocurrences for a check before it alerts. This is an option present in other monitoring tools and prevents a lot of false alerts. Example being number of connections, we have an threshol...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Add built-in function for generating new UUID values

Generating new UUIDs for large tables has become a serious performance issue for us. We have a workflow in our application that updates a UUID column for tables in excess of 5 million rows. This takes us upwards of 2 hours in our odbc (cli) applic...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Enhance ALTER STOGROUP DROP ‚storage-path’ with optional specification of the Path_ID

As you may ADD the same path multiple times to a storage group (in order to have multiple containers of a single tablespace within that path), it should be possible to even DROP a single reference to that path from the storage group as well! But s...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

CLP command shoud read db2dsdriver.cfg

Db2 command line processor (CLP) shoud read the db2dsdriver.cfg (as CLPPlus does) in order to set particular parameter as current application compatiblity or current packageset when you need a different value from the the default. Thanks
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

As Db2 system / instance administrator, I need to retrieve instance data without connecting to a regular (tenant) database

Several of the in-memory monitoring table functions and views return data which is instance-related. Still, a database connection is needed just for the purpose of having authentication / authorization / connection handle. This requires administra...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

Enable DATABASE_MEMORY change on WRITE SUSPEND database

We are using db2relocatedb to deploy test, dev, preprod environments from production images (disc snapshots). This happens multiple times a week (talking about multiple hundred databases). Most databases have DATABASE_MEMORY set to AUTOMATIC. Relo...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

Create a new authentication plugin for handling OAuth/OpenID protocol

The customer currently uses Kerberos but indents to move to OAuth/OpenID after upgrading from db2 V11.1 to V11.5 or V12
7 months ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration

Please make DB2_HADR_ROS a dynamic registry setting

Please make DB2_HADR_ROS registry a dynamic registry variable.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Functionality already exists