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    ONLINE REORG INDEX without logging for HADR

    Our Application:24x7. HADR synchronous. LOGINDEXBUILD=ON because of HADR. We have large tables with lots of indexes required for performance reasons. Current problem:We are unable to run online REORG indexes for large tables as this overwhelms our...
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

    Provide UPSERT avoiding DUPREC

    While MERGE can be used to emulate UPSERT, it is possible that MERGE fails with DUPREC if 2 UPSERTs implemented using MERGE try to INSERT the same row.The condition might be false and both try to INSERT. One succeeds and the other fails with DUPRE...
    5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 1 Submitted

    Inclusion of Load Copy Images into the B/U image

    DB2 includes the require logs but forgot about the load copy images required by roll forward to make the backup image complete for disaster recovery.
    about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Improve XML length/sizes determination

    One of the frequent questions I receive from application teams, when dealing with XML data is : What is the max size of my xml documents in database ? What is the average size of them ? Today, Db2 has no easy answer for that.. the LENGTH() functio...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    External Table USING Options

    Need to be able to create external table objects using all the "USING" options when writing to the file. The best example is that (VAR)CHAR type objects need to be written with "quoted" values (e.g., 'ABC",'DEF' written to the file instead of ABC,...
    11 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

    LISTDEF (like) utility

    This is required so that the ability to perform various utilities (e.g., REORG) on multiple objects (tablespaces and/or tables) can be performed utilizing a list of objects.
    11 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

    Enhance correlated subquery cardinality estimate with stat views

    Peoplesoft application extensively uses correlated subqueries on EFFDT to check that EFFDT = (SELECT MAX(EFFDT) FROM ...). Cardinality estimations can be derived from PK, but this sometimes is not sufficient. We need to be able to get EFFDT estima...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

    Db2 PureScale Spectrum Scale Package (GPFS) should include performance sensor and collector package

    Dear IBM, in the Spectrum Scale distribution bundled with DB2 pureScale, the binary of mmperfmon is included but the packages for the required sensors and collectors are missing. mmperfmon is needed to identify possible performance bottlenecks wit...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Future consideration

    Increase the number of ALTER TABLE operations that can be performed online without placing the table in "reorg pending" state

    There are a few operations that seem to place the table into "reorg pending" state immediately when it should be possible to treat them as REORG-recommended. For example, any ALTER COLUMN .. DROP COLUMN statement that doesn't affect indexes should...
    almost 5 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

    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...
    almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

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