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Db2

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Allow fixed MAXLOCKS value even if LOCKLIST is AUTOMATIC

When LOCKLIST is set to AUTOMATIC, the MAXLOCKS setting cannot be set. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/locklist-and-maxlocks-database-configuration-parameters-and-lock-escalations In general this follows the concept of LOCKLIST AUTOMATIC, but th...
about 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Add "IF EXISTS" syntax to all DROP statements

More and more SQL is stored in repositories and needs to be applied in odd places and orders. One syntax element that supports this is the "IF EXISTS" on a drop statement. This causes a statement to not count as a failure if it finds no object to ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 0 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 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

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 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Save Results as CSV or XLSX in a JOB

CSV or XLSX could only save in a active session. in time of homeoffce you could not log in the hole time and wait for the results. In the case of long queries, you should be able to execute this query in the background as a JOB and then save the r...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Planned for future release

HADR: Ability to take incremental backups on either host and maintain the incremental chain for restore

In an HADR environment it is not possible to restore / recover the database with backups which are taken from both sites of the HADR cluster (after takeovers). You have to use the backups from the one site or from the other site. You can't mix the...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Provide pre and post upgrade dbm and db checks of Db2 parameters and highlight any deltas

It is currently a best practice that we recommend customers do pre and post upgrade dbm and db checks manually. The request is that this should be performed automatically as part of the Db2 upgrade script itself. Comparing before and after parame...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

implicit GRANT EXECUTE to SYSMON authority for all monitor routines(RIMS)

Customer has to grant the EXECUTE privilege on the monitoring functions to a user who already has the SYSMON authority. They would expect that a user of the SYSMON_GROUP holds this privilege implicitly. This looks like a restriction to the monitor...
about 10 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Databases on RHEL want to use Active Directory without LDAP

Hello Team , One of the largest account from Norway wanted to use DB2 Databases on RHEL want to use Active Directory without LDAP . This is stopping orginization to migrate 20+ databases from other RDBMS . Currently DB2 databases on RHEL can only ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Under review

External Table support for Db2 running on Windows

Db2 running under Linux allows currently to use external tables. For testing, production use, migration and completeness those feature should also be available for the Windows (and other OS) platform. Especially as this is a potential replacement ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration