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Db2

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Online db encryption at rest

To implement encryption at rest - we have to do backup - restore i.e. outage to application. OUtage can only be avoided in case of HADR setup which is not always the case. This RFE is to bring feature of online db encryption without any outage to ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Lock access plan for a query. Prevent the optimizer from changing a plan, once a "good" plan has been determined.

We see cases where a large query runs fine, and something changes the stats, which causes the optimizer to choose a really bad plan. We would like to be able to lock an individual query, and tell the optimizer: "Just use this plan".
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 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.
over 4 years ago in Db2 5 Not under consideration

DB2 database in a read only mode

Ability to place a DB2 database in a read only mode for a period of time. Out side of the "db2 set write suspend for database" or a quiesce.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

DB2 PureScale to Support Oversubscription of Storage in IBM Flash System

The IBM Flash System (FS7300) does such as good job at real time data compression that I am achieving almost 5:1 compression on one of my environments (31TB Written = 6.4TB Physically consumed). So, while it has 80% of the storage allocated to IBM...
11 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 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...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Allow for the parallel restore of multiple different db2 tablespaces when Incremental Backups are present

Refer to Case TS000107666 for more info. Allow for the restore of multiple db2 tablespaces in parallel when Incremental Backups are present. Parallel tablespace restore with incremental backups should accommodate: rebuild db restore (with subset o...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Finer granularity of configuration parameters

Many configuration settings are currently at the whole level of granularity. 1) Similar to 'use' privilege at the tablespace level, it would be helpful to be able to grant 'load' privileges at the tablespace level too. Currently it is a database-l...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

adjust card estimates on predicates using both COL = '?' and COL > <value> similar to accounting for NUMNULLS

Component: DB2 optimizer When a column is NULLable, a predicate COL = ? will account for numnulls to estimate cardinality. The problem comes when column is NOT NULL, and "the NULL value" is a real value. Peoplesoft has been designed to use a major...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

ADMIN_CMD to support INGEST and INGEST SET

Tech Note describes how to use INGEST via ADMIN_CMD:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22006386 but using INGEST via ADMIN_CMD is not supported by IBM (see TS000004839 and TS000004925). In addition to support INGEST also INGEST SET c...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 2 Not under consideration