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Db2

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DMC format for time metrics needs to be smarter for values bellow ms range

This started as a discussion in IBM Db2 community. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/hybriddatamanagement/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=2983&MessageKey=8802cd2f-d91d-46aa-a114-aa6cc5ec88df&CommunityKey=e...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future 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 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Include a comment in the backup

It will be great to include a comment each time a backup is executed. The comment value is included in the history file, it only needs to be used by the backup command.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Not under consideration

Add ALTER COLUMN options to modify numeric column length and allow rename column names for ((bi)temporal) column organized tables

Db2’s capabilities to perform schema changes on any form of ((bi)temporal) column organized tables lacks behind it’s row organized counterparts. This prevents effective database schema evolution and therefore limits the use of column organized tab...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Create User Temporary Tables in round robin

Assuming that there is more than one temp tablespace with the same page size and 'IN TABLESPACE' clause is not specified in the DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE command, then DB2 optimizer should allocate the temp tables across all temporary tablesp...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

DB2 PureScale to Support Oversubscription of Storage in IBM Flash System

The IBM Flash System (FS7300) does such as good job at real time data compression that I am achieving almost 5:1 compression on one of my environments (31TB Written = 6.4TB Physically consumed). So, while it has 80% of the storage allocated to IBM...
9 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

New behavior added to DEC_TO_CHAR_FMT

SELECT CHAR(DECIMAL(1.92,15,2),',') FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1 For Db2 z/OS we use setting BIF_COMPATIBILITY = V9_DECIMAL_VARCHAR For this statement we get following results (for Db2 LUW we have parameter DEC_TO_CHAR_FMT set to NEW) : Database Value Da...
9 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Submitted

Implemented the support for XA

The .NET core started XA support from .NET 7 but driver has not yet implemented the support for XA in our core package. Functionality is needed to support 2 phase commit in .NET Windows application
9 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

Estimate the optimal BLU columnar compression rate by sampling data

A technique is needed to determine optimal data compression rates for BLU columnar tables. Such a utility should estimate the optimal compression rate without and with the new string compression enhancements delivered in Db2 11.5 code stream. In e...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Functionality already exists

remove all world writable permissions on files and directorys see also 79173

Our Security does not want to see files and directorys which have the world writeable permission set se also fea 79173 PMR is case TS000140222
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration