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Db2

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Generate UUIDs in DB2

Oracle (sorry to compare!) has ability to generate a UID. We are looking for this function in DB2 Zos and LUW. Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) -- In Oracle Oracle sequences are frequently used to provide unique numbers for primary keys where an...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development / Other/Unknown 2 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 ...
almost 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

dmctop - add interval and samples for background data collection

Like db2top, dmctop needs the capability to collect data using -i (interval in seconds) and -s (number of samples) when collecting data in background mode (-b).
over 1 year ago in Db2 / DMCtop 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

DB2 online backup using Tivoli Storage Manager causes DB2 hang

Fix the online back freezing issue as described at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21979921
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Allow to switch off username conversion to lowercase

We are currently using Db2, SLES11, RACF/LDAP (zOS). Application users (personalized users, not system users) connecting to Db2 are defined in RACF/LDAP. Db2 user authentication and authorization is using Transparent LDAP, accessing RACF/LDAP. T...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

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

Consideration of Statistical Views for INSERT with Sub-SELECT

We try to improve the performance on an INSERT with an underlying complex subselect eg. "INSERT INTO table "Therefore we created a statistical view through which the optimizer should be able to get more distribution statistics and build a better a...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

new aggregated WLM threshold for LOCKLIST at workload/service class level

We have MAXLOCK db-cfg parameter which can be used to avoid a single connection (UOW) to consume the LOCKLIST space. But this parameter some times it not enough. I have seen LOCK escalation cases happening (which locked system tables, causing huge...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Future consideration