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Foreign key with on update "cascade"

As part of the SQL 92 standard, there is a referential action for foreign key that allows to update on cascade. The following link is the SQL 92 standard:http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql/sql1992.txt In the Section 11.8, there is the f...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Preserve table creation timestamp after reorg-finsished using admin_move_table procedure (online table move)

Following Knowledge Center, https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPGG_10.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.perf.doc/doc/c0024850.htmlwe perform table reorg using admin_move_table . The issue is, after run admin_move_table command, the original...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

SSL encryption enablement with data direct ODBC driver for DB2 Federation Server to SAP HANA

We need SSL encryption enabled with data direct ODBC driver for DB2 Federation Server to SAP HANA. This is the response from IBM Support team. Federation server doesn't support SSL with SAP HANA ODBC drivers. To connect to SAP HANA, customer has t...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release

Support log switch under SET WRITE SUSPEND EXCLUDE LOGS

Today Db2 cannot switch to a log file while write suspend. Therefore a archive log gets performed at beginning of write suspend. Then the write suspend can only last and the database can only work until 1 log file gets full. The time a database is...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Need easy to use backup/restore solution for text search indexes

Rollforward recovery, PIT recovery with text search indexes is a manual and error prone process. It often means recreating the text indexes to match the data in the tables. This is extremely time consuming.The Db2 for z/OS solution for text indexe...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Text Search 0 Planned for future release

Real global CGTT (not SESSION local)

SAP BW needs to materialize data into persistent (regular) tables to be able to access it from multiple session (connections). CGTT and DGTT in Db2 cannot be accessed from multiple sessions/connections. Therefore those temp tables that don't requi...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

db2 backup instance use snapshot wanted

db2 backup instance use snapshot wanted We have more then one database in an instance and the current implementation of db2 backup database use snapshot can not handle that. We want to make a snapshot for all databases in an instance and preferabl...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Ability to query catalog tables and administrative views in stand by

There is an option called Read On Standby (ROS) that allows to connect and perform selects on the standby role of a HADR cluster. However, this is focussed to business tables. I propose the capability to perform selects on the standby but just on ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Reduce size of LOAD COPY dataset for tables with LOBs and XML

A LOAD COPY where the table being acted on has one or more LOB columns is much larger than the original data / final table size / post load backup. From investigation it is based on the pagesize and extentsize of the underlying tablespace. This pr...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

ROCE Virtualization support for DB2 pureScale

ABC (Agriculture Bank of China) are going to deploy lots of pureScale clusters, and each cluster does not demand lots of CPU/MEM/IO resources. Customer wish to deploy pureScale clusters on VMWare virtual machines to save physical machines and most...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration