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An environmental variable that sets the database to use "Enforced" as a default for constraints.

For some shops, constraints are always created as "Enforced". This used to be the default behavior, but the default behavior was changed to "Not Enforced" in Db2 V11.Creating an environmental variable would allow the teams to choose the default be...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Functionality already exists

Allow inplace reorg of tables with XML columns

Lift the restriction on being able to do an inplace reorg of a table when the table contains an XML column.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

DMC - Display Fine Grained Access Control (FGAC) values of Column Masks and Row Permissions for each Table

This would be a useful feature to allow DBAs to not have to leave the DMC tool and use a different tool to verify the FGAC items are in place for various tables in a Database. The DSM tool had a Tab FGAC that would display the FGAC values in place...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Start Commandline-Script in Stored Procedure

Executes external commandline-scripts from stored procedure. The stored procedure call should work like following: select * from (VALUES '`sh /tmp/test.sh`') AS TEMP(Testoutput); With the script i check if new created tables or views from developm...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Enhance the db2pd flag -quiesceinfo

The following db2pd flag, -quiesceinfo, only applies to PureScale even though this is not clearly documented. We would like to see this available on all DB2 LUW installations.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

To remove tablespace maintenance restrictions on pureScale

To remove all the restrictions of SQL1419N Reason code = "11" on pureScale. 11 Altering database containers is not supported in a DB2 pureScale environment. As a result, the following clauses are not supported with the ALTER TABLESPACE statement i...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 2 Functionality already exists

Support mixed row/column environments without requiring CUR_COMMIT=ON

We have recently run into a problem when we enable Cur_commit because of the locking behavior expected by some applications (they expect blocking). Therefore, we have to disable CC, but then that app cannot use blu. We want to give our plant the a...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Planned for future release

event monitor tables (activity/actitivtystmt/activitymetrics) should support range partitioning

event monitor tables do not support range partitioning. In addition, you can not create expression based indexes on them. This makes them more difficult to manage and query. create event monitor wlm_activity_mon for activitieswrite to table activi...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

New Database Parameter to Open Db2 for LUW Backup Files in Read-Only Mode for Deleting It

Refer to case TS005462380 for more details. Due to the rise in hackers targeting backup data files, our company has implemented Retention Lock on all backup files, including Db2 database backup files and archive log files, by changing the file per...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Support the INLINE Optimizer Guidelines in SQC

The Inline hint is not working in .sqc due to C-style comment syntax.This feature really makes the query tuning simple.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration