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Display server uptime in db2start summary written to db2diag.log

In addition to details about CPU and RAM that are currently reported in db2diag.log during db2start, include the server uptime duration.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Remote DB2 connections via Universal Diver T4 not well balanced.

Sysplex workload balancing does not guarantee that executions are distributed among the available systems. It depends on the capacity of the systems (WLM choose systems with more CPs/ZIIPs), performance index of enclaves, and DB2 system health (fr...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Enable consistent export - implement MVCC

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almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Externel table support for: parquet, orc (big data formats)

Currently a DB2 external table support file formats like: CSV nad TXT; and there is also support for external cloud locations like S3, COS, Azure. The option to load data directly from a cloud data lake in hadoop file formats like: parquet, orc, a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / NoSQL 1 Future consideration

Estimate the optimal BLU columnar compression rate by sampling data

A technique is needed to determine optimal data compression rates for BLU columnar tables. Such a utility should estimate the optimal compression rate without and with the new string compression enhancements delivered in Db2 11.5 code stream. In e...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Functionality already exists

"delete cascade" does not work with "not enforced"

The option "not enforced" on a foreign key invalidates an already set "on delete cascade" option, although this is not visible anywhere within the data model or documentation. In my opinion, setting one of these options should prohibit the other o...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

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 ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Add db2move option to read/write compressed files

Sometimes during a migration diskspace runs low. It would be great to have an option for db2move, which reads/writes files compressed or pipe it through gzip/bz2/... This would lead to a storage reduction during migrations of roughly 80% plus redu...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

SQLCODE SQL0302N should give hint which parameter is too long.

Scenario: prepared statementsError: host variable too longProblem: SQL0302N should give a hint which parameter is affected. Details:Using prepared statements with parameter markers such as INSERT INTO TESTTAB (COL1, COL2) VALUES (?, ?)"); DB2 thro...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Add support AIX 7.1 for Db2 11.5.4

I support my customers system which runs DB2 ESE on AIX 7.1. We were on DB2 10.5 and upgraded this Summer to 11.5 which compatibility reports showed as a supported configuration. Now that we are looking at applying 11.5.4 fixpacks, I'm finding the...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Not under consideration