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Db2

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Primary Keys should allow NOT TRUSTED

Currently you can create NOT ENFORCED primary keys but the optimizer will then always treat these as trusted. This causes problems when the constraint is violated but a filter includes all PK columns since the engine will return only one row even ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 5 Not under consideration

Add package name to SQL0552N msg

When db2exfmt is used from remote clients with different db2levels than the db2 server, than binding of packages with this level is needed. If the users got BIND rights granted, this is done impliziely without problems. However if users don't have...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Increase Database Name Length Restriction

Real Life Scenario: With Devops and the introduction of "Infrastructure as Code", a database build can be done via Helm Charts, K8's, Cloudformation templates, etc. Automation can dramatically increase how often a database is built and how many cl...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Allow DBM CFG FEDERATED YES ONLINE configurable

Allow DBM CFG FEDERATED YES ONLINE configurable Db2 federation is activated by: UPDATE DATABASE MANAGER CONFIGURATION USING FEDERATED YES To use federation it is necessary to stop/start database manager. Please make it possible to activate federat...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Db2 LUW TSM incremental and/or delta backups from FlashCopy off-load server based backup

The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of Germany (BaFin) uses the Spectrum Protect Snaphot (SPS, aka FlashCopy Manager, FCM) software to create Db2 FlashCopy Backups and to offload them to a backup system. From this backup system are Db2 bac...
11 months ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Allow offline backup to automatically force all Allow offline utilities such as backup, restore, rollforward to auconnections

Modern enterprise applications are often using connection pooling for database access. Connection pools are usually monitored by application servers, and dead connections are reestablished with minimal delays..For offline backup operations, this l...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Enabling Restrict on Drop clause logic in create table command for db2 LUW

There is a feature called "Restrict on Drop" that should be used by the database designers while creating a table for the db2 LUW database 1) If a database designer uses this "Restrict on Drop" clause for the creation of the table then the t...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 7 Not under consideration

Provide certificate based authentication

We'd like to see certificate based authentication being offered for DB2 LUW and DSM.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Enhance correlated subquery cardinality estimate with stat views

Peoplesoft application extensively uses correlated subqueries on EFFDT to check that EFFDT = (SELECT MAX(EFFDT) FROM ...). Cardinality estimations can be derived from PK, but this sometimes is not sufficient. We need to be able to get EFFDT estima...
12 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Please add buffering for LOBs

Please add buffering for LOBs
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Types / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration