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Db2

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Add Federation support for Apache Cassandra

Officially support and optimize performance from Federation (Db2 Linux/Unix/Windows) server to Apache Cassandra databases. We need to support as many data sources as possible as the move towards non-homogeneous data ingestion continues.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

COMMIT NOWAIT

COMMIT NOWAIT could be used to accelerate commit processing (releasing locks while log data not yet written to disk nor transferred to HADR standby) . There are applications that know how to restart their database transaction in case the transacti...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Allow federation like access to HADR RoS

Implicit have federation like access to HADR standby would help application developers to take advantage of RoS standby feature to offload workload.Same connection, same authorization, but with STANDBY.. accessing the tables on standby would be cr...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Add the new IF EXIST functionality to db2look

The new syntax IF EXISTS for CREATE and DROP TABLES (see https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.aha.io/ideas/DB24LUW-I-259) should also be generated by db2look on demand. This would help and simplify migration scenarios with db2look. This should also be av...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Remove EACCES errors when restoring into different instance on same machine

When restoring a database without automatic storage with redirected restore on a machine where the former tablespace paths exist (but are owned by another UID) the redirected restore generates multiple "EACCES (13) PERMISSION DENIED ERRORS" within...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

More options to generate DDL in DMC

I would like to see more options to include/exclude dependent and ancillary objects when generating DDL for tables. What I need are the Tables, Indexes, History, constraints, and comments, but I don't want views, triggers, stored procedures or oth...
8 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Add "Do Not run on Startup" Checkbox to the "DB2 First Steps" app.

This is, without a doubt one of the most annoying applications I deal with. When I log on to a database server, it can take a while to start this app, meaning I am in the middle of something when this app pops up in the middle of my work like some...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 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...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Limit the 'list of tables' to display when using Ranger authorization

We need to limit the list of tables to display to non authorized users when Ranger policy are enabled. We followed the steps described in this article, but it doasn't work when using Ranger to manage users authorizations: https://www.ibm.com/suppo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 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 ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration