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Db2

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Enhance ALTER INDEX to have MINPCTUSED option (Online)

Allow online ALTER INDEX ... MINPCTUSED %;
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Silent uninstall of ibm data server runtime client renders in error with db2lswtch

We are having problem when uninstalling IBM Data Server Runtime Client 11.5.7.0 from a script. Install works fine but when uninstalling I use this command from a command window as administrator MSIEXEC /X {9915B73E-D89B-4D1C-89B3-5FEF7978024C} /le...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Control/Force RTS Fabrication

There exists a fundamental issue whereby if a query predicate is > HIGH2KEY then the optimiser always estimates cardinality of 1.For date/time related columns this is an issue as there may always be data beyond HIGH2KEY even immediately after r...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Incorporate Trace suspend option into Quiesce command

We want to remove the suspending of the incoming connections via db2trc command and make "quiesce command with force connections" do the same thing as db2trc is doing currently.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Prompts for all db2 utility cancellations

I have faced this issue at the beginning of my career. When we ran into some issue with utility hung or ran some utility accidentally don’t know when it will be finished and when can we kill that process. If we give a prompt with some information ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

DMC Backup Restore

It would be great if database administrators could manage and schedule backups and restores from the DMC in Cloud Pak.
about 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

IBM Data Studio needs to show and manage ALL GRANTS on SCHEMA level

Currently Data Studio 4.1.4 does not correctly show or allow you to manage all GRANTS to SCHEMA via the GUI interface. If you view properties of a User, Group or Role, under Privileges the SCHEMA tab only shows ALTERIN, CREATEIN, DROPIN, but not a...
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Support Snapshot Isolation Level

Today, when our ETL jobs scan large amounts of data from a table with out using RS/RR isolation levels under certain conditions they see duplicate data and/or missing data. This could be caused due to the fact that rows that were already scanned c...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Federation Support for Microsoft Access Database

Most of the retail customers use MS Access for maitaining small to medium databases and would like us to consider them while developing solutions. Unfortunately DB2 LUW 11.5.7 does not have any federation support for MS Access. We have to do a rou...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Federation 2 Functionality already exists

DB2 performance - Hash partition table

On the VLDB - Very Large Database environment.DB2 should support hash partition table to improve performance especially pureScale environment.
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration