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Db2

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Add "Do Not run on Startup" Checkbox to the "DB2 First Steps" app.

This is, without a doubt one of the most annoying applications I deal with. When I log on to a database server, it can take a while to start this app, meaning I am in the middle of something when this app pops up in the middle of my work like some...
11 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

IBM should consider releasing Db2 database software as an RPM

We currently create our own RPMs from the database software downloaded from Passport Advantage. This is time consuming and can be eliminated by having IBM package and distribute their software as an RPM for easier consumption like other DBMS vendo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

Provide better hang information

In the case of a hang, we only have the material for root-cause analysis if we were able to collect db2fodc information before the system became fully unusable. A small moving window of such information written out to disk on a regular basis would...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

DB2 STANDBY REPLAY DELAY caused by Offline reorg

IBM case: TS008415413 When an OFFLINE REORG is submitted on Primary, the REPLAY on STANDBY (both Principal and Auxiliary) applies the transactional logs till the BUILD phase. When the reorg moves to recreate or updates the INDEXES, the REPLAYS sto...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to control db2sqljcustomize behavior on untyped host variables and prevent silent data type conversion

We modernize a banking database application originally written in COBOL by migrating the functionality into a new written Java application. During this application migration we noticed that there is an issue with unexpected/unwanted data type con...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

DB2 Recovery Expert access Backup and Logs directly over Vendor Library

Currently when doing Reports with the DB2 Recovery Expert, access to Backup and Logfiles over the Vendor Library (in our Case Commvault) is done on the managed Database itself. This is causing a high Performance impact on the System (Disk, Cpu and...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1

Extension to Temporal (TimeTravel) SQL

Avoid error SQL20524 RC 3 which is returned once you try specifying a column name instead of a explicit value like in following SQL:SELECT * FROM FACT INNER JOIN TA_DIM_BITEMP FOR BUSINESS_TIME AS OF colts ON fact.id = TA_DIM_BITEMP.id Just to cla...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

DMC add ability to switch from AM/PM to 24h representation globally in DMC.

Please add 24h time representation to DMC!!! The Graphs produced by DMC are very beautiful yet hard to read with a time line of AM/PM.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Add Runstats Check functionality for DB2 LUW objects (similar to Reorgchk) to determine if a table really needs runstats or not

No description provided
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

DB size status and monitoring via Console

Hi Team, We can see DB size in Report section, but when we generate report it generates multiple .html files which can be tough for management to review it. We are looking for DB size report in one excel sheet as below for multiple databases and a...
12 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration