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Enable consistent export - implement MVCC

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

JDBC driver parameter to compress LOB/XMLs to reduce network overhead

We have a JDBC application INSERT or UPDATING a LOB/XML column. Currently this can cause transaction slowness as the INSERT or UPDATE has to wait for the uncompressed LOB to travel across network.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Features missing in DMC

1) We are not able to get the Display of DB Size for each database. Can you please help to get this enabled in DMC. 2) We are not having option to check the Backup status for each DB in DMC . Please help to get this enabled in DMC. 3) We would lik...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 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...
7 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

DB2 LUW should support 1GB pages on Linux x64 platform

When using VMWare as Host System for (RH) Linux we are able to configure 1GB Pages like: sched.mem.lpage.enable1GPage = "TRUE" On the other hand DB2 on Linux Redhat Guest System right now does only support huge (2MB) pages per IBM DB2 documentatio...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

WLM should support IDLE timeout threshold for activity.

WLM supports connection IDLE timeout threshold with CONNECTIONIDLETIME. Our customer would like to have IDLE timeout threshold for SQL statement activity within a connection with fine granularity. They periodically issue mon_get_activity and mon_g...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 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...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 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...
7 months ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Submitted

db2start of a running instance should reload/restart configuration without interruption of current sessions

Sometimes dbm configuration changes are not active immediately and require a full instance restart. E.g. adding an SSL port and config updates of the db catalog changes in SYS*_GROUP ... It would be great, if a db2start command is issued while the...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 2 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server Runtime Client support on Red Hat OpenShift

We are using Red Hat OpenShift to access "external" Db2 databases. We have a "IBM Data Server Runtime Client" in each container in a OpenShift POD, one or more containers per POD. OpenShift uses overlayFS with overlay2-driver where the the client ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration