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Db2

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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

Re-build synopsis statistics in BLU

Provide a function to rebuild the synopsis table metadata online/offline to improve query performance.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 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

Marking range partitions in a table as readonly

Need feature at range-partition level granularity to mark it read-only so that no update/insert/delete can be performed on a particular range-partition. And by default (when not marked as readonly) all partitions carries table level permissions.Pe...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Please add Firstlsn to the MON_GET_CONNECTION table function

The firstLSN is only available using db2pd. It is the ninth column reported from: db2pd -transactions It does not appear to be anywhere else. I would like to be able to query it using the MON_GET* table functions.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Increase maximum numbers of columns in an index key from 64 to 120

Db2 has the lowest limit of allowed index columns compared to the competitors.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Encrypted column support being deprecated, what else is available?

With DB2 LUW 11.1 the encrypt and decrypt, decrypt_char, decrypt_bin, etc functions are being deprecated. We already have all of the data encrypted on the disk with the disk subsystem so using an encrypted database does me no good. I need to be ab...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

refresh fedration cache withouht the need to bounce instance once port number is changed from x to y

We have fedration defined from db2 to db2 v1 11 servers. once we update the port number of the fedration server we started getting errors like below SQL30080N A communication error "111" occurred sending or receiving data from the remote database....
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Full Entity Framework Support through DB2 Connect (Code First / Migrations)

In another RFE/Idea (IBMI-I-1135) asked for EF support to be delivered and the response was to use DB2 Connect. We do use db2 connect to get what support there is for EF but one of the critical pieces missing is code first and migrations. https://...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

How to estimate incremental backup size?

I would like to know that How to estimate incremental backup size? And If i calculate the data per day from transaction log or archive log?If not, Could you please suggest another way for calculate the data?
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 0 Not under consideration