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Db2

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Reduce size of LOAD COPY dataset for tables with LOBs and XML

A LOAD COPY where the table being acted on has one or more LOB columns is much larger than the original data / final table size / post load backup. From investigation it is based on the pagesize and extentsize of the underlying tablespace. This pr...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Db2 Warehouse Developer Edition coomon container for version 11.5.7 and 11.5.8

Db2 Warehouse Enterprise edition v.11.5.7 and 11.5.8 common container are delivered and available for push via IBM Cloud repository. Due to unknown reasons Db2 Warehouse Developer Edition v.11.5.7 and 11.5.8 common containers are missing and are n...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Warehouse 2 Not under consideration

Verify OVERFLOWLOGPATH is valid at the BEGINNING and allow override in RESTORE DATABASE command.

When restoring a DB2/LUW database Db2 currently restores the database and then abneds if the OVERFLOWLOGPATH is invalid. A restore can take many hours and having the restore fail at the end of the restore wastes all those hours.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

DB2 data server client for Mac OS

There are different Data Server clients for many platforms (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg213852170. However, for Mac OS there is only the DS.It is necessary to have a Runtime Client for this platform.The only way to have it, is...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Add MS SQL Server 2019 support in Federation & Q-Replication...

TSMC needs to replicate data from DB2 ESE to MS SQL Server 2019. As you know, MS SQL Server 2019 already been GA recently (2019/11/04 https://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com/2019/01/sql-server-2019-versions.html), they are requesting this new feature...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Add option in db2look to not extract LBAC every time

All of the LBAC definitions are extracted and printed every time the -e option is specified. If one just wants the DDL for a single table, all of the LBAC definitions are printed, even if that table has nothing to do with LBAC. A -nolbac option wo...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Remove requirement to delete and re-create cluster manager domain via db2haicu as part of major Db2 version upgrade.

Currently, when performing a version upgrade to Db2 V11.1 it is necessary (from a support perspective) to delete the TSAMP Domain and re-create it.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

remove all world writable permissions on files and directorys see also 79173

Our Security does not want to see files and directorys which have the world writeable permission set se also fea 79173 PMR is case TS000140222
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Allow values > 100 for MAX_LOG

MAX_LOG specifies if there is a limit to the percentage of the primary log space that a transaction can consume, and what that limit is.The range of the parameter is 0-100 percent of the primary log space. However, there are cases when a value >...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

ROCE Virtualization support for DB2 pureScale

ABC (Agriculture Bank of China) are going to deploy lots of pureScale clusters, and each cluster does not demand lots of CPU/MEM/IO resources. Customer wish to deploy pureScale clusters on VMWare virtual machines to save physical machines and most...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration