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Db2

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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

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...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Future consideration

Mechanism to identify a workload and adjust memory values

Workloads can be different in a database, executed at different times. When the STMM is active, and a workload (let's say A) runs for several hours, then the memory will be fine adjuted for the workload at the end of the execution. However, for th...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under 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

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

Trigger support on nickname

I tried to implement a trigger to update nicknames but received the following error. Without this function, the following design is not possible, I have to put the reporting and online schema into 1 database if I want to use triggers for synchroni...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Add Create/Alter/Drop IF NOT EXISTS support for constraints and indexes

We would like the ability to add/alter/drop constraints and indexes, depending on their current state of existence.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Support for running on Amazon Linux 2

Add Amazon Linux 2 as a supported operating system for running Db2.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

WLM thresholds and compound expressions

I would like WLM thresholds to have compound expressions.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

Round DOUBLE when number too small instead of returning error SQL0405N

SAS calculations can return DOUBLE values smaller than Sailfish can store in a DOUBLE data type. When a SAS dataset containing one of these values is written to Sailfish, the default datatype is DOUBLE and an error, SQL0405N, is returned. Sailfish...
about 5 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration