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Add option :statement rollback is able to release the locks for the failed statement.

When -803 ( violating unique key constrain ) happen on a statement, there are two things happen1) db2 still hold the lock on the row accessed by the statement that cause -803 , no matter the statement had fail.2) The transaction was not rollbacked...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Planned for future release

The support of IRS capture on pureScale EHL mode

In pureScale, Explicit hierarchical Locking is supported when opt_direct_wrkld set to ON.However, IRS capture is stopped abnormally due to SQL error.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Allow Db2 ESAF interface with IMS to use PSB in place of loadmodule

Currently when a thread is created between IMS->Db2 the Db2 ESAF exit uses the Load module name to link to a plan name of the same name (or another name if using RTT load module). In a test environment there may be a scenario where several diff...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Error message improvement

We request na addition to the error messages for this specific scenario: While converting non-UTS tablespaces to UTS using SECQTY 0 the opperation returned only the message DSNI014I reason code 00C90101, no message indicating space shortage in tab...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Future consideration

Enhanced flexibility for SYSMON_GROUP

Some privileges like SYSMON (or SYSADM, SYSCTRL and SYSMAINT) are only available in DBM CFG for OS group members. We can imagine the following scenerio to enhance flexibilty for those priviliges:Allow adding additional OS groupse.g. db2 update dbm...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Lowering the limit for ACTIVITYTOTALTIME and UOWTOTALTIME

We should be able to trap the transaction that spent more than 10 seconds with a threshold. Can we change the low limit of the parameter ACTIVITYTOTALTIME and UOWTOTALTIME to allow a magnitude of milli second.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

Ability to stop using of AOT and other db2 tables on the IDAA

When we STOP or start for UT ,spaces of tables that are loaded to IDAA or spaces that relate to AOT's, these spaces are still available for the IDAA. We can SELECT data from the IDAA for these tables and for AOT's' we can also update them. We need...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Full Entity Framework Support through DB2 Connect (Code First / Migrations)

In another RFE/Idea (IBMI-I-1135) asked for EF support to be delivered and the response was to use DB2 Connect. We do use db2 connect to get what support there is for EF but one of the critical pieces missing is code first and migrations. https://...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

How to estimate incremental backup size?

I would like to know that How to estimate incremental backup size? And If i calculate the data per day from transaction log or archive log?If not, Could you please suggest another way for calculate the data?
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Enable registering SSL connection information for databases cataloged in LDAP.

For databases enabled with SSL connectivity, it would be useful to be able to register the protocol and certificate storage information in the LDAP catalogs as well. Currently the db2dsdriver.cfg supports including this information as part of a da...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration