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Automatic migration of EXPLAIN tables in db2 LUW

Dear Team, We have seen whenever we migrate to higher version of db2 luw, the explain tables are not automatically migrated. We need to manually drop and recreate the explain tables to avoid errors like SQL0206N, SQL0220N, SQL1184N. As db2 modific...
over 2 years ago in Db2 1 Submitted

Add table function to "pretty print" explained statement

Db2 allows to install the EXPLAIN TABLES using a procedure (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_11.1.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.explain.doc/doc/t0059594.html) There are different ways to generate an access plan, i.e., to explain a s...
over 7 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

Reorg blocking applications when using "allow write access"

While an "allow write acces" online reorg is running lock-wait contention can happen based on the number of rows being updated by an application. The locks for the application can escalate to lock an x lock. If this situation happens, the reorg sh...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Allow Run SQL to handle host variables as Data Studio does

When executing a SQL query under DSM, there is no provision for host variables and an error results when you try to execute a query. A simple example such as: SELECT EMPNO, FIRSTNME, LASTNAME, WORKDEPT, HIREDATE, JOB, SEX, BIRTHDATE FROM SPEMP ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Add session-level reset for monitoring metrics in the MON_GET* table functions

There is no way to reset the metrics reported in the MON_GET* table functions. Please add functionality for resetting these at the session level, much like "RESET MONITOR" does for snapshot monitoring. Yes, there are a dozen ways to code this your...
over 9 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

CHNGPGS_THRES should be ONLINE configurable

DB CFG CHNGPGS_THRES should be online configurable, not just configurable.
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Provide LOBS support for columns over 32kb

There is currently no LOBS support for columns over 32kb in BigSQL Hadoop tables. For column which size is over 32KB, there's a limitation on the DDL when creating the table (maximum size is 32672), hence whole data/string couldn't be retrieved wh...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Future consideration

Reorg online on 24x7 applications

The reorg online process need to lock the table in order to conclude. This is not a problem when you dont have many transactions, but when you have a 24x7 intense workload you might have a huge impact on your application.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add the ability to upload Db2 transaction log files to TSM that had been moved manually by DBA

We use Db2 log archiving to TSM servers. No failover archive path has been set yet. Under rare circumstances we faced situations where log archiving to TSM does not work or slows down and the active log path fills up. To prevent disk full situatio...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Please provide the last grant time for auth (system/db/schema level) and privilege.

Please provide account creation, deletion, and the timestamp when a particular account was granted auth (system/db/schema level) and privileges on an object. db2luw is branded as an insecure DBMS every time in a security certification audit becaus...
over 3 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration