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Add BEFORE and/or AFTER clause to ALTER TABLE

For the ALTER TABLE statement, it's relevant to add an "AFTER ..." OR "BEFORE ..." clause specifying where in the table the new column is to be placed. This statement component exists in DB2 for i and in certain other databases (like Informix and ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Not under consideration

db2pd -inst attemps to collect PureScale information in a non-PureScale environment

db2pd -inst attempts to collect - quiesceinfo and - iperiodic even though they are not appropriate options for the non-PureScale environment. It seems like db2pd should be smart enough to collect the information appropriate for the operating envir...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

JOB Section required SNMP

Hi Team, We are having JOB section which runs few scripts, but when any failure for it we are looking to have SNMP enabled . We require SNMP to be enabled as we want any JOB Failure to act within SLA without any miss.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Integrated Pacemaker

Hi Team, For all databases greater than V11.5.7.0 we are planning to start deploying DB2 Integrated Pacemaker cluster setup which requires monitoring such as : If cluser is not ready to move Standby node. If VIP is not up. If Cluster is in Maintai...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Outstanding Archive Log Generation

Hi Team, We have alert in DMC to check if any failed archivals to send an alert. Can we have alert if any outstanding logs more than 10-20 are not archived to send an alert which can help us to track how many logs are not archived and why its missed.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Log Generation Rate Monitoring

Hi Team, We are seeing huge log generation on daily basis. Can we get the Log generation rate monitoring in report section so we can try to schedule on daily basis to send E-mail notification to review for Critical databases the flow coming in.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Backup Monitoring and alerting is not available

Hi Team, In DMC we are not able to check the backup status via console or alert is not enabled if backup is not available more than 3 days for Non-PROD and more than one day for PROD. At present we running via UDA to check the backup status as fea...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Centralized Path in DMC server to run Jobs or UDA

HI Team, We are running few scripts via Jobs or UDA, but if any script to be run we need to place script in all database servers where we need to run it which is huge manual process to do it. Kindly help to get the Centralized path enabled in DMC ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

License Expiry Alert via E-mail and SNOW

Hi Team, In DMC we couldn't see the license expiry alert via SNOW or E-mail. Can you help to get this enabled in DMC as feature which we are monitoring as UDA because of unavailability in DMC.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

STANDBY_RECV_REPLAY_GAP alert via E-mail and SNOW

Hi Team, We have DMC enabled to monitor DB2 database . We have few databases which has huge log generation and due to which STANDBY_RECV_REPLAY_GAP will be high and we could see on day to day purpose more gap is generating on bigger database. Can ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration