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Db2

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Include Prefetch wait time Metrics in monreport.dbsummary() stored procedure

Prefetch wait time numbers are a bit similar to FCM in the sense that they can be really high even in a normal system. Prefetch wait time doesn’t start until an agent attempts to read a page that has already been queued for prefetch – then the clo...
6 months ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Submitted

Improve precision for CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on windows

when asking for the CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on Unix systems, we have 6 decimal precisions for the timestamp value. yyyy-mm-dd HH.mm.ss.nnnnnn - TIMESTAMP(6) but for windows, current_Timestamp just provides a milisecond precision yyyy-mm-dd HH.mm.ss.nnn ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 2 Future consideration

User ID metrics Consistency across several monitor interfaces

User Id identification metrics are not consistent across different monitoring interfaces. Db2 offers different metrics to identify the end user. CLIENT_USERID SYSTEM_AUTH_ID SESSION_AUTH_ID The same 3 metrics should be available in ALL places wher...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Incremental backup of LOBS

Incremental backup of db2 should do INCREMENTAL backup of Large Objects (Blobs, Clobs etc). I am referencing this two limitations: 1. If a table space contains long field or large object data and an incremental backup is taken, all of the long fie...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

ACS Screen split (Horizontal/Vertical)

During our transition from Bosanova (telnet client) to the 5250 of i Access Client, a key feature we found lacking was the ability to split sessions into 2 or 4 parts with a single button press. In our previous Bosanova setup, this functionality a...
11 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

No Column Information shown when viewing Indexes

When exploring Indexes, when an Index is selected, It shows a great many things about the Index, except it does not show the Columns that make up that index. I have went to different views (Dependencies, Alter) but the Columns that make up the ind...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

Reorg on criteria

Add new option to allow the reorg utility to discard / keep rows during the reorganization
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

REST API call from stored procedure

Calling Watson APIs directly from DB through stored procedures like in DB2 with DB2XML.HTTPGETCLOB function.This feature would allow to build more integrated and more simple workflow for our Clients. Watson NLU, NLC, Translator are in use at this ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

LOAD to COMMIT extent allocation

LOAD is today a single transaction. It does not create much log volume, but LOAD might run long if lots of data need to be loaded. This can lead to log full disk situation, if concurrent transactions create a large log volume.The extent allocation...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Removing defunct Delta Backup images after automatic database backup image removal

We have automated backup options enabled (num_db_backups and rec_his_retentn both set). Our backup schedule takes a full backup on Sunday and a Delta every other day of the week. When a full backup image qualifies for removal, with reference to th...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

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