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Db2

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Logical Backup

Create “loadable” files foe objects rather than table space dumps. Only base table contents, no indexes
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Migration from SMS/Raw to AS

How to move the thousands DBs which use a combination of SMS (syscatspace) and RAW to full automatic storage. Some DBs are 100+TB so unload/load is not an option. Need a date for elimination of SMS/RAW support to determine our priotiy!
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

RP Tables syntax

If the “INDEX IN” option is left off the index goes in the default TSP. There is no way to change this later
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Runstats report only

Add the option report to the runstats utility to display the up to date statistics without updating the catalog tables
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Federation for XML data type

Description Federation queries (select statements) against an Oracle server are failing if the Oracle table has an XMLTYPE column. Even a select count(*) against these tables fails. Tables in the same Oracle server that do NOT have XMLTYPE colum...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Fluid Query 0 Not under consideration

Implement Advisors for recommendations

Would be nice to have advisors and alerts in order to identify need of memory adjustments, table reorging, report the need of collecting statistics, database backups and other important things that DBA should be aware in order to guarantee a good ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Lack of information about Queries from Federated DBs - particulary from DB2 z/OS

From DSM we should be able to see the transactions from federated databases. In the case when we are having some federated transaction contention we are not able to see on the source database on DSM getting more difficulty to diagnose a performanc...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Improve backup configuration

Actually we need to define some environment variables like DSMI_DIR, DSMI_CONFIG to implement a TSM backup. So in case we forget to configure this at first moment we will need to do an instance restart. Would be better to consider some dynamic par...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 4 Not under consideration

Improve lock management

Eliminate a lock needed by a SELECT statement in order to performance a query without need to implement a dirty read - UR.Although there is a solution doing an uncommitted read on the transaction, it requires an application modification changing t...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Execution Plan

At execution time DB2 recommend and implemment the best execution plan for a transaction/procedure automatically.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

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