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Db2

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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

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

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

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

Support additional single-byte encodings for column-organized tables

The latest updates to DB2 have added the support of codepage 809 (ISO8859-1) for databases using column-organized tables..This is good for many Western customers, who are able to avoid switching to Unicode (and paying the penalty of 2x or 3x chara...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Parallel index rebuild.

Allow to send the commands create index in parallel on the same table (or any other operation which could be parallelized).
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration

Support for "every" in the "alter table add partition" to add multiple partitions

The "create table" statement supports this syntax to create a table with multiple partitions: CREATE TABLE DOCUMENTS ( ID INTEGER, CONTENTS VARCHAR(10)) PARTITION BY RANGE (ID)(STARTING 1 ENDING 1000 EVERY 100) This will create a table with 10 par...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

Adjust F2 criteria for AUTO_REORG on adaptive compressed tables

AUTO_REORG uses reorgchk output, like F2 criteria. The problem is that F2 does not take into account pagelevel dictionary. The size can be important, like 5K out of a 16K page, and therefore F2 criteria is always below the 70%... and tables will k...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Refresh Command for External Fenced Routines

For our external Stored Procedures (written in Cobol, PL/1, C) we need 1. the flexibility of keepfenced=no to get changes in shared-objects active (i.e: in case of hotfixes) without a restart of db2.2. the speed of keepfenced=yes, because by the s...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Not under consideration

Restore at table level

Mainly on auditing needs when you have to get some information from the past or when you need to recover just one table only its nowadays you have to do a complete restore. Would be good to have this feature.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Functionality already exists

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