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Db2

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Moving only a single partition with AMT procedure for online reorg

Since the performance of inplace reorg per partition is too slow, customer want to use AMT procedure for online reorganizaiton. However AMT can specify table level only, not partition level.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Favor BID index against TBSCAN for MDC tables

Ref: case TS000043776 2 DMLs working on different dimensions on MDC can lead to deadlock when this should not happen.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Fed Server Kerberos support for Greenplum

Morgan Stanley would like to have a Greenplum driver for Federation server. Eventually they would like to have Kerberos supported for authentication to the Greenplum Server
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Enhance CLPPlus to be more equivalent to CLP in terms of functionality

Would like to see CLPPlus enhanced to the equivalent of CLP for at least the following capabilities: - full create database support, including remote client support - update for DB and DBM configuration - CLP equivalency in terms of XSR maintenanc...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

To monitor system resource usage at database level in a pureScale environment

All current monitoring facilities can not meet customer requirements to monitor overall system resource consumed for a specific database, in a database consolidation scenario of pureScale. PMR#: TS000078803
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Echo predicate functinality for sub queries

Issue Statement: Echo predicate is not working properly to eliminate partition and query is taking longer time to complete Filter With Hard Coded date: Query completes in 2 secs , since it is directly hitting the July 31st partition alone SELECT *...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

Add new option to create schema / alter schema

Add new options to create schema / alter schema to specify default tablespaces
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

It's not supported to use ASCII and UNICODE tables together (SQL0873N)

Case #000080573 DB2 Z/OS supports multi-codeset objects in one database but LUW does not that. We cannot do JOIN, UNION ALL, or SELECT ~ INSERT between these tables which are all supported in DB2 Z/OS. In addition, DB2 Z/OS has a function like UNI...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Master key rotation in HADR is not in transactional sequence even in SYNC mode

IN Encryption at rest - HADR scenario, master key rotation on primary is not getting shipped to standby immediately (relatively) in SYNC mode. Seems it needs explicit ARCHIVE LOG command to rotation key on standby.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Mirror LUW Db2 history file

The RFE is to improve database integrity, backup and recovery. Db2 has a "history file" that tracks things such as backups, rollforward, log archive, etc. The history file exists in the database path (DBPATH) directory. There are two history files...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration