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Db2

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More options to generate DDL in DMC

I would like to see more options to include/exclude dependent and ancillary objects when generating DDL for tables. What I need are the Tables, Indexes, History, constraints, and comments, but I don't want views, triggers, stored procedures or oth...
4 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Lighter Weight db2fodc -hang

Db2 Support often asks customers to collect db2fodc -hang to investigate hang issues. This is an heavyweight command that causes severe impact to customers' workload. We need a lighter weight db2fodc -hang command that allows users to input an app...
over 2 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

INSTANCE_MEMORY AUTOMATIC should be automatic, not calculated

The default value of the INSTANCE_MEMORY parameter is AUTOMATIC. The AUTOMATIC setting results in a value that is computed at database partition activation. This behavior is inflexible regarding dynamic memory changes e.g. for AIX LPARs. Today it ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW Allow Online (Mostly) Index Creation

Hello IBM, Currently whenever we create an index on a table we see significant number of lock timeouts for the applications. We are running a pureScale cluster and not able to create Indexes ONLINE. Pain points: We use DB2 LUW pureScale...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 3 Not under consideration

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE CONTINUE after INIT

AMT kann in einem Schritt per MOVE durchgeführt werden oder in einzelnen Phasen - INIT / COPY/ REPLAY und SWAP.Ein z.B. CONTINUE würde feststellen, wie weit der Vorläufer gekommen ist und die restlichen / noch nicht durchgeführten Phasen selbständ...
8 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

System Tables should come with STATISTIC PROFILE set from factory

We all know how important STATISTICS are, and more specially, how they are captured for each particular table ! Documentation says that DBA and application sholuld determine best options, based on usage.. but ibm is lacking to do the same for thei...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

Partial early aggregation (PEA) in a federation system

Extend the Db2 optimizer combined with federation for partial early aggregation (PEA). Push down SQL queries to a federated database to reduce traffic from the remote source significantly.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under 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

Db2 Houskeeping of combination of Snapshot Backups and TSM Backups

At the moment Db2 supports housekeeping of backups by DB configuration parameters rec_his_retent and num_db_backups. These parameters are used by the customer for years for Db2 TSM backups. Both parameters are set to a value of 8 - ensuring more t...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration