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Add Estimated Percentage Complete for database restore in db2 list utilities show detail

When backup is executing and in another session "list utilities show detail" is executed there is e.g. "Estimated Percentage Complete = 30" displayed. But when restore is performed this estimated percentage is missing. Please add this info for res...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Add support for database SINGLE_USER mode access

Time to time there is requirement to be the only user on the database like drop and create database, but there are also users with system authorizations connected to database. Or there is product (even from IBM) like Maximo: https://www.ibm.com/su...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add support for INFORMATION_SCHEMA views

In our company we are using PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL and DB2. All of database except Db2 support INFORMATION_SCHEMA views. There is pretty easy to write at least basic cross-database SQL to get info from database catalog tables except in Db2....
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Support of TO_SINGLE_BYTE (oracle function) in 1363 code page database

Needs for higher Oracle compatibility.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

System maintained MQTs for BLU MPP

We use DB2 v10.5 DPF for a Warehouse Environment (40TB Data, ~9000 Users, 40 Tsd. Reports per day). We want to migrate the database to DB2 v11.1.1.1 BLU MPP with all tables column oriented. In this case we have checked the functionality for system...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Do some more checking when Db2 fixpack is installed - like will fixpack be working after instance upgrade

On my test computer Linux x86_64, Db2 v11.5.8.0 is installed and I decided to upgrade to v11.5.9.0. 1. I checked prerequisite and everything was successful. ./db2prereqcheck -i -s -v 11.5.9.0 2. I installed Db2 server and installation was s...
8 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Get sequence's NEXTCACHEREFRESHVALUE from cache.

Please see the attached word document and as our development teams are trying to retrieve the NEXTCACHEREFESHVALUE value after ALTER SEQUENCE ..RESTART and before invoking NEXT VALUE but could not able to find the way to get the value of NEXT CACH...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Reorg pending status should be in a table like SYSCAT.TABLES

The column that indicates if a table is in reorg-peding is in a table that is not in the schame SYSCAT. This value should be in a table in SYSCAT, because this schema is the catalog, and it is almost standard across versions, and it is a set of v...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Provide the option to exclude SELECT statements from db2audit when collecting DML data

The painful and expensive IBM recommended workaround that ended up not being feasible was to create event monitors (multiple so that records can be cleared) with WLM. However, the volume and format of output generated by the event monitors is diss...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Error DIA3202C in db2diag.log does not include database name

getting an error in db2diag.log that a connection to a database ist not possible because of a TCP/IP call does not work. In our case a connection to a remote database should be established, which was already dropped. But there is no database name ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration