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Db2

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Perform rebuild of each index (for a table) in its own transaction

In the current design, all the index rebuilds for a table are performed within the same transaction (as the action that triggered them). If the transaction is interrupted (e.g. user interrupt or dropped session), then the entire transaction is rol...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 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

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

support "fixed record length" for load/import with UTF8

Load and import do not support "fixed record length" for MBCS.The field offsets have to be specified in bytes only.There is no possibility to let the data movement tools "think in letters, instead of bytes".
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under 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

Compression for automatic DB2 backups

DB2 LUW includes a solution for automatic backup creation, which is enabled by AUTO_MAINT and AUTO_DB_BACKUP parameters and configured by the 'AUTO_BACKUP' maintenance policy XML..The policy XML file does not allow to specify options to enable bac...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0

CSV or Delimited result set function in SQL

My result set final format needs to be CSV. It would be awesome if I could use SELECT CSV(*) FROM TABLEA to return my result set as a column of CSV format. so for instance I have a requirement to produce a csv file of variable record lengths SELEC...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 0 Future consideration

InsteadOF SQL

It is common in the database world (DB2 but all the others I have worked with are the same) to have a separate product installed that generates code and submits it to the database for processing. Eventually, you will encounter SQL that doesn't per...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Enable 'db2move' to change definitions during COPY SCHEMA

Using a list of schemas with db2move COPY schema function allows to copy a database content including function and procedure definitions from one database to another,And in the default mode "DDL_AND_LOAD", it copies definitions and loads data usin...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration