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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 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future 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

Enable EXPORT to use a Storage Access Alias

Enabling EXPORT to use a Storage Access Alias will be very useful for DBA's using both on Prem and Cloud environments. It can only be used by LOAD/INGEST/BACKUP/RESTORE at the moment. Adding the capability to store data on object storage in the cl...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

What part of Db2 still requires 32-bit support?

While talking with Keri Romanufa at IDUG Philadelphia I was asked to enter this as an RFE to be checked on.During a Db2 LUW installation for pureScale on a 64-bit machine, which will have only(!) 64-bit executables, a lot of 32-bit libraries are r...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

db2prereqcheck on AIX should detect presence of a soft link for /usr/bin/python3 as it is required by some pureScale cluster components

db2prereqcheck contains code to check the presence of python3. This is required for pureScale (GPFS in particular). However, if the softlink in /usr/bin/python3 is missing, when upgrading from Db2 11.5.8 to 11.5.9, db2prereqcheck doesn't log any m...
6 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Application connections storm slow downs the DB response

I've been assisting with an ecommerce site. During typical days, let's say non-peak/low volume of orders, the DB response is always good. However, the DB response time slows down for a few seconds, notably during peak season/high amount of orders....
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 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...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

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 ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 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...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

TIMESTAMPFORMAT option in the CREATE SERVER clause

When performing federated queries from Db2 to Presto, it seems that the option TIMESTAMPFORMAT ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=options-jdbc ) for setting the timestamp format of the data source does currently have no impact when speci...
6 months ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Submitted