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Db2

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Limit query for DMC Storage panel to active tables

Limit query scope for storage panel to active tables. Query on a peoplesoft DB takes 53 min whereas limiting scope to active tables (MON_GET_TABLE), it takes < 5 min. On Peoplesoft DB, we have about 65K tables when only 7K are used.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration

Make DB2 maintainance easier to do and to monitor

- Add an API entry to monitor need for reorg, last regorgs done, maintainance windows etc.- Add a panel to simply monitor DB2 maintance health (information could come from the before mentionnend API)
about 1 year ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Restrict Users from creating jobs

We would like to restrict certain users from creating new jobs and executing them using DMC. Due to the strict data access and tightened restrictions for offshore team due to the work from home process in place, we would like the offshore team to ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under 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

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...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 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).
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 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

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

Red Hat SSO need to support Db2

Red Hat SSO does not support Db2 according to documentation https://access.redhat.com/articles/2342861 Customers who are using Db2 would like to be able to use it for Red Hat SSO. Maintaining additional databases add complexity and cost.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Expand db2pd -reorgs index to cover index rebuilds

Currently, there is no way to monitor index rebuild progress using db2pd. It will be useful for customers to be able to monitor index rebuild progress as they do for index reorgs (db2pd -reorgs index).
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Not under consideration