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support "fixed record length" for load/import with UTF8

Load and import do not support "fixed record length" for MBCS.The field offsets have to be specified in bytes only.There is no possibility to let the data movement tools "think in letters, instead of bytes".
about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

We should expand the maximum size of a LOB object per table or table partition

Enhance Maximum size of a LOB object per table or per table partition (in terabytes) 4 -> 8,16,32,64,128
over 2 years ago in Db2 2 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 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

db2pd -db option not working with catalog-ed database alias

When using the db2pd command it will not function/work with a catalog-ed database alias as shown below:- /u03/db2inst1>db2pd -db csnxhadr -tablespaces Database CSNXHADR not activated on database member 0 or this database name cannot be found in...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

db2pd -dump enhancement

Hello, Sometimes there is hung situation when we run db2pd -dump . Is that possible to enhance the db2pd -dump to throw the error messages instead of causing Db2 hung situation?
almost 7 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Compression for automatic DB2 backups

DB2 LUW includes a solution for automatic backup creation, which is enabled by AUTO_MAINT and AUTO_DB_BACKUP parameters and configured by the 'AUTO_BACKUP' maintenance policy XML..The policy XML file does not allow to specify options to enable bac...
over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Db2 LUW support on Windows Server 2022

Please support Windows Server 2022 on v11.5 and vNext. Windows Server 2022 was released in August 2021 and we have consumers wanting to use the latest operating system. End of support for Windows Server 2019 is January 2024 but it takes time for u...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

RESTORE DOESN'T PRESERVE THE ORIGINAL TABLESPACE LAYOUT LIKE THE SOURCE

We run into a problem with DB2 restore taking more than one day. SAP created 'Special Build 40602' which preserves the original Tablespace layout. See IBM ticket TS003864545 This 'Special Build' was supposed to be integrated with DB2 version 12, n...
over 1 year ago in Db2 1 Under review

Write all logs to disk at regular intervals so progress can be identified if the exe throws an un-trapped error

We have had a couple of instances where a build has been progressing and unexpectedly failed due to an un-trapped error. As all logs are built in memory and only written to disk at the end of the process, trying to identify or narrow down the pote...
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Add support AIX 7.1 for Db2 11.5.4

I support my customers system which runs DB2 ESE on AIX 7.1. We were on DB2 10.5 and upgraded this Summer to 11.5 which compatibility reports showed as a supported configuration. Now that we are looking at applying 11.5.4 fixpacks, I'm finding the...
about 6 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration