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Percent/Dynamic/Automatic Value for NUM_LOG_SPAN

NUM_LOG_SPAN species a number of log files. If the number of log files changes (LOGPRIMARY, LOGSECONDARY, LOGFILSIZ) the absolute number of NUM_LOG_SPAN should be adjusted as well. If NUM_LOG would be a percent value of the primary log files there...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

Support federation to Presto using JWT authentication

Customer does not allow user/password authentication to data sources, including Db2 and Presto (watsonx.data). With the help from the labs we managed to configure Presto in watsonx.data to accept JWT authentication; for this an idea has been creat...
4 months ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Submitted

when editing connection you can activate the option to initialize HADR

When editing the connection, the option to initialize HADR will appear on the screen. Today this option is only possible for new connections or databases. However, every old database can become a HADR.
4 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Submitted

BACKUP command option: ALL TABLESPACES EXCEPT (tablespace-name)

Customer has a huge number of tablespaces (f.e. 10000) and wants to do a tablespace backup of all tablespaces except of for example 3 tablespaces. We would like to do the following: $ db2 BACKUP DB myDB ALL TABLESPACES EXCEPT (unnecessary_tab...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW Federation Server should be able to use Sysplex Workload Balance (WLB) when connection to DB2 z/OS.

Implement Sysplex Workload Balance (WLB) for DB2 Federation Server connections to DB2 z/OS sysplex data sharing like exists for JDBC driver/DB2 Connect.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

An analog of LOG_HADR_WAIT_TIME monitor element is needed at the agent level

Sometimes it's very useful to understand HADR influence on the transaction performance. We do have a couple of related elements - LOG_WRITE_TIME and LOG_HADR_WAIT_TIME at the whole database level, but their values can't help us to understand, if H...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

No Column Information shown when viewing Indexes

When exploring Indexes, when an Index is selected, It shows a great many things about the Index, except it does not show the Columns that make up that index. I have went to different views (Dependencies, Alter) but the Columns that make up the ind...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

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...
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

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