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Bufferpool and tablespace creation authority to DBADM

Create of a tablespace and bufferpool requires SYS* authorities. It made sense in earlier days when SYS folks needed to create filesystem, mount point etc. With automatic storage enabled database, it makes a perfect sense to delegate these authori...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

db2diag.log change ZRC=0x82100101 Sever and Error message to Informational

IBM support has informed us that the following messages can be ignored, if so, then they should not appear as "Severe" or "Error" in db2diag.log, suggest we change them to "Info": MESSAGE : ZRC=0x82100101=-2112880383=SQLP_LOG_NOT_ACTIVE "Log need...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2

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.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

DMC Notification Center resolution handling

We sometimes have over 1,000 warnings on a server (image 001) and the Notification Center does not handle the volume well. We can only display up to 30 alerts on a page and we can only CLOSE, DELETE or EMAIL them (image 002). We would love to have...
9 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 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

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

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...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

As Db2 system / instance administrator, I need to retrieve instance data without connecting to a regular (tenant) database

Several of the in-memory monitoring table functions and views return data which is instance-related. Still, a database connection is needed just for the purpose of having authentication / authorization / connection handle. This requires administra...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

As Db2 system / instance administrator, I need to retrieve the list of active databases using SQL

Coming from snapshot monitoring, the goal is to use in-memory monitoring and SQL in the least intrusive way to monitor the health of a Db2 instance and its databases. Right now, this is done by connecting to a non-tenant dummy database and running...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

need to provide a RENAME SCHEMA statement (other database products provide this)

Need RENAME SCHEMA other databases other than DB2 LUW (i.e. MaxDB from SAP) provide a statement RENAME SCHEMA to rename a schema like a RENAME TABLESPACE/TABLE/INDEX. Needed on all supported operating systems.
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration