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Db2

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Support additional single-byte encodings for column-organized tables

The latest updates to DB2 have added the support of codepage 809 (ISO8859-1) for databases using column-organized tables..This is good for many Western customers, who are able to avoid switching to Unicode (and paying the penalty of 2x or 3x chara...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Mechanism to identify a workload and adjust memory values

Workloads can be different in a database, executed at different times. When the STMM is active, and a workload (let's say A) runs for several hours, then the memory will be fine adjuted for the workload at the end of the execution. However, for th...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Connect EF Core support in Azure Function with WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE enabled

when running in azure functions it is severely recommended you have WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE enabled as this makes your runtime code secure. however we found via support case with IBM that the license directory must ALWAYS be writable and there is...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Parallel index rebuild.

Allow to send the commands create index in parallel on the same table (or any other operation which could be parallelized).
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration

How to estimate incremental backup size?

I would like to know that How to estimate incremental backup size? And If i calculate the data per day from transaction log or archive log?If not, Could you please suggest another way for calculate the data?
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Trigger support on nickname

I tried to implement a trigger to update nicknames but received the following error. Without this function, the following design is not possible, I have to put the reporting and online schema into 1 database if I want to use triggers for synchroni...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Add Create/Alter/Drop IF NOT EXISTS support for constraints and indexes

We would like the ability to add/alter/drop constraints and indexes, depending on their current state of existence.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Support for running on Amazon Linux 2

Add Amazon Linux 2 as a supported operating system for running Db2.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Adjust F2 criteria for AUTO_REORG on adaptive compressed tables

AUTO_REORG uses reorgchk output, like F2 criteria. The problem is that F2 does not take into account pagelevel dictionary. The size can be important, like 5K out of a 16K page, and therefore F2 criteria is always below the 70%... and tables will k...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

JOB Section required SNMP

Hi Team, We are having JOB section which runs few scripts, but when any failure for it we are looking to have SNMP enabled . We require SNMP to be enabled as we want any JOB Failure to act within SLA without any miss.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration