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Federation support for Transient Schema

Federation Support for transient schema that allows the ability to auto-update nickname for add/drop/alter column statements for an existing table without having to recreate the nickname. Perhaps a tunable that allows for enable|disable for use ac...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

db2look should offer an option to sort the generated objects

When generating db2look in different server, databases, configuration, the order is not the same (probably because the creation order was different) and it is difficult to compare objects in different databases.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

allow LDAP based db2 instance user for PureScale instance creation

Right now instance creation and maintainance in PureScale (db2icrt/db2iupdt) requires that the db2 instance user is local, i.e. has an entry in local /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. This expose a huge problem for LDAP based environments like ours whe...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

URL for JDBC without ending semi-colon in optional parameters

When using extra parameters for the connection in a JDBC URL, the complete URL should end with a semi-colon. However, other drivers for other RDBMS do not need the las semi-colon; actually, the semi-colon is only used for key/value separation, not...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Restore Diagnostic messages

When upgrading DB2 LUW from V10.5 to V11.5, restore got hung after processing 830G [ full backup data ] without any message DB2 Support team was contacted to troubleshoot the issue, finally, it appeared to be an file lock issue, DB2 appeared to be...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

Allow DB2 connection to be inherited by a subshell

With the db2 command it is possible to execute a wide variety of DB2 tasks from a shell environment. It is however not possible to use variable substitution in a way that feels natural in a Unix environment. The execution of a shell script starts ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Future consideration

During rollforward to PIT from TSM, why does DB2 create the second LOGSTREAM0000 directory under the active log path of the database

During rollforward to point in time recovery from TSM, why does DB2 create the second LOGSTREAM0000 directory under the active log path of the database
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Standby node with higher version

When a Db2 version upgrade is requiered, currently it should be done in the active node. However, there are some scenarios when preparing a standby with a higher version is easier. For example, when migrating to new servers, with higher OS is bett...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Truncate table partiton

1. many customers expect to truncate a table partition without first detach and then drop, and finaly add a new partition with the same definition as the detached partition, because they may design their range partition as "Jan, Feb, ... Dec" with...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Enhance functionality of WITH clause to operate with DELETE and UPDATE in DB2 SQL statements like others flavours of SQL

Our team uses IBM DB2 11.1.4.4 Database Server for development activities. We see limitations of DB2 SQL WITH clause to work with only SELECT unlike other flavors of SQL like T-SQL which operates other DML operations. Just like how WITH simplifi...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration