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over 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Invalid maximum timestamp value availble in DB2

In reference to this Db2 for z/OS idea (link), we need the same functionality for all platforms including Db2 for LUW. I quote the text from the other RFE: Currently there is documented maximum timestamp value available in DB2 as '9999-12-31-24.0...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 0 Not under consideration

In error message display actual table's column name that is violating NOT NULL definition instead of outputing "TBSPACEID=2, TABLEID=5, COLNO=0"

I am constantly running into this problem when inserting null values into not null table column. Getting out tablespaceid, tableid and colno is time consuming and annoying to constantly check the column name that is defined not null, but null valu...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Update LASTUSED info for table more frequently

When new table is created, some migration is performed and similar it is pretty important info when object was last accessed. Db2 has LASTUSED, e.g SYSCAT.TABLES.LASTUSED column, but the data in this column can be according to documentation up to ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under 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...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

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.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 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.
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) should be able to use a DB2 file as input from iseries

Very often a user gets a list of (hundreds or even thousands) similar changes to make. He gets the list of course in excel or text file and needs to type these in a green screen (5250 emulation). In Client acces there was a neat solution for this:...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

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 Not under consideration

remove the requirement of setting DB2INSTANCE before entering/exiting maintenance mode as root

Starting from v11.1.3.3, the user wants to enter / exist maintenance mode as root user, s/he has to export DB2INSTANCE before the db2cluster command: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPGG_11.1.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.sd.doc/doc/t00...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration