IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    Db2 LUW Automatic maintenance window setting

    Current automatic maintenance does not allow to have multiple offline or online maintenance windows, only one of each. For example, we have automatic online maintenance window for 4 hours at night daily but need to have another definition for 24 h...
    over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Rewind the current database from logs

    Opposite to roll forward, it will be great to have the possibility to perform a rewind of a database (in roll-forward state or normal one), to a previous state with the logs. It will be like uncommit, or a general rollback.
    over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Offset for entity framework

    I’m currently using Entity Framework to fetch data from DB2. Due to limitations in how paging works, I’ve had to enable UseRowNumberForPaging in the connection string, otherwise the Skip() functionality doesn’t generate valid SQL for DB2. Without ...
    8 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Planned for future release

    Redesign of cleanup on remote cursor load of LOB data

    Customer migrated from DB2 9.1 on Solaris to DB2 9.7 onLinux. As restore is not supported between different endianarchitecture, load by remote cursor was used for datamovement. There was one single table storing about 400 GB ofLOB data (BLOB), tot...
    almost 11 years ago in Db2 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 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

    Federation to support Spark in Databricks platform

    Our enterprise data lake has Spark in Databricks and have many projects/ applications waiting to access these datasets from datalake for their use cases, using Federation server Nicknames. We did a quick test in our lab for which we were able to c...
    almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0

    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 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Provide pre and post upgrade dbm and db checks of Db2 parameters and highlight any deltas

    It is currently a best practice that we recommend customers do pre and post upgrade dbm and db checks manually. The request is that this should be performed automatically as part of the Db2 upgrade script itself. Comparing before and after parame...
    over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    Avoid SQL1246N for incremental backup

    This sqlcode SQL1246N is send by DB2 during an incremental backup each time a new tablespace has been created and no full backup of this tablespace has been done. It shoud be more interesting to switch automatically for this tablespace from the in...
    about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Lift the restriction for max 8 charaters in database name

    The restriction of a maximum of 8 characters in a database name should be lifted to something more adequate for todays devops pipelines, say 32, 64 or even 128 chars. There is a need to give databases a more descriptive name than what is possible ...
    about 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

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