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Lift the restriction for max 8 charaters in database name

The restriction of a maximum of 8 characters in a database name should be lifted to something more adequate for todays devops pipelines, say 32, 64 or even 128 chars. There is a need to give databases a more descriptive name than what is possible ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Db2 LUW support on Alma 8

Request is to certify Db2 LUW on Alma Linux 8 as the replacement for CentOS. Research indicates: RedHat announced that they are replacing Centos 7 and 8 with Alma Linux. There will not be a Centos 9. RedHat announced that they are replacing Centos...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

auto-reorg OLR for cleanup of overflows

Auto-reorg should use online window to issue REORG CLEANUP OVERFLOWS (and also trigger a RUNSTATS afterwards).Problem to solve: SQL optimizer thinks overflow accesses are quite expensive and then might to start choosing different access plans that...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Security enhancement - support of roles for GRANT SETSESSIONUSER privilege

After the change of the security setup in DB2 database to a role based model there is still a part where some rights can only be granted to groups instead of roles. This forces admins to maintain to sets of security setups making a complex Task ev...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Section actuals for BLU

Collecting section actuals and compare it with the SQL compiler estimates using the db2caem tool is quite handy to find cardinality mis-estimates in huge plans.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Performance penalty in LOAD when using large bufferpool

LOAD RESETDICTIONARYONLY and other LOADs take very long, if table resides in large buffer.The limitation also applies to LOAD on row based tables, but bufferpools on BLU systems tend to be much larger.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

TIMESTAMP with TIMEZONE

Competitive databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQL Server along with others have data type TIMESTAMP with TIME ZONE but LUW does not. Our own DB2 on z/OS starting version V11.0 has TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 2 Future consideration

Sticky selection for "Items per Page" viewing in Data Management Console

When I choose the number of ITEMS PER PAGE to display for DB monitoring or in the Notification Center, the value is not maintained from session to session. It would be great to allow users to choose the values to display, or to choose which value ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

DB2HOST variable needed for PureScale to redirect and define IP to participating subnet's

In Db2 PureScale GDPC the Db2 cluster is distributed on 2 different physical locations and a Quorum Host (tie breaker node) on a 3rd location.The general Db2 install routines use the 'system hostname' (gethostbyname) for the ongoing install proced...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

HADR Standby logarchiving

Hi, HADR standby databases do not archive log files. the recommendation is a shared filesystem or similar. Shared filesystems adds complexity in failure situations. This request is to enable the functionalty of logarchiving on the standby database.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration