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Db2

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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

Let Physical Detach and Attach Operations on the same table run at the same time

Today there is no timeout on Detach Physical Phase and Attach alter cannot run on the same table at the same time as Detach alter. Some detach alters are taking over 20 hours to finish placing daily partitions at risk of not being created. Also th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance of retrieving large result sets

Performance of Db2 client/server communications in a network environment needs to be significantly increased in cases where large amount of data (100s of MB or more) are being moved between Db2 server and remote client. This needs to be provided n...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Add Booth Ticket Manager to Pacemaker/Corosync package in Db2

With V11.5, Db2 is now able to use PaceMaker & Corosync to provide cluster resource management. But missing is the Booth ticket manager. From RedHat "The Booth ticket manager is a distributed service that is meant to be run on a different phys...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Make online REORG respect UTIL_IMPAT_LIM

Currently, an online REORG will run as fast as it can (but I think limited to a single thread).It would useful if we made it respect the utility throttling limit that we have in place for other types of maintenance activities (runstats, backup, re...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Provide an Open-Source Repository for the Db2 Docker Image Build Scripts/Files

I have been using the Db2 image from Docker Hub to test Db2 11.5. This has been an invaluable option to quickly get an instance up and running, so we can test the new features. However, I have run into some issues with the image. One such (minor!)...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Functionality already exists

2-Phase commit for JDBC driver to Postgres

We use a replication solution which utilizes DB2 LUW Federation as a link between DB2 z/OS (source database) and Postgres (target database). So the picture is as follows: SQL Replication 11.4 -Db2 z/OS 12 on mainframe, -Db2 LUW Federation 11.5.8, ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 1 Needs more information

I hope add 'UPDATE CASCADE' like 'DELETE CASCADE'.

System: BASActor: DBA and Developers.
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Not under consideration

Allow converting of the SYSCATSPACE to the reclaimable storage.

There is no way to convert the Catalog tablespace to RECLAIMABLE storage. The only workaround is to create a new database and to migrate the objects and the data. Since, we have a lot of databases which were created in pre-9.7 versions, we are stu...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration