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Enhance ALTER INDEX to have MINPCTUSED option (Online)

Allow online ALTER INDEX ... MINPCTUSED %;
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Db2 load ALLOW READ ACCESS support for column organized table

Currently, if a db2 load is happening on a column organized table, users are NOT able to read the data from same table until the load is finished. It's inconvenience for the customer and its users in their daily operation. Thus, the customer wants...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Improved support for Sections in Refactoring Assistant

Currently when refactoring Cobol code where there is a "PERFORM <section>" statement, the refactored code does not pull in the SECTION headings which causes the PERFORM lines to fail.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

ADDI Workspace creation via CLI

To build an automated method for onboarding users, assigning privileges, and adding them to respective workspaces appropriately, the customer is seeking a CLI command to create workspaces instead of using the GUI in the configuration server.
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Job Management Functionality

The job management and scheduling component in the DB2 Data Management Console does not have the same functionality as it had in the Data Server Manager. A person can't edit a job that someone else created which makes it very difficult for a team ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Control/Force RTS Fabrication

There exists a fundamental issue whereby if a query predicate is > HIGH2KEY then the optimiser always estimates cardinality of 1.For date/time related columns this is an issue as there may always be data beyond HIGH2KEY even immediately after r...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Add REORG LONGLOBDATA for columnar tables

Currently we can create columnar tables with CLOB/LOB columns in it. What we can't do is reclaim the allocated diskspace of the CLOB/LOB columns (LOB_OBJECT_P_SIZE) in columnar tables To get an idea about how many diskspace is allocated: db2 "...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Create a feature to DB2 11.5 Compatibility of online backup and other utilities

Request a feature on DB2 11.5 so online is backup is compatible with DDLs that require a Z lock (such as ALTER TABLE, DROP TABLE, and DROP INDEX). We have a daily eligibility and customer extract jobs that is running on a nightly basis that requir...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Incorporate Trace suspend option into Quiesce command

We want to remove the suspending of the incoming connections via db2trc command and make "quiesce command with force connections" do the same thing as db2trc is doing currently.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

ADDI should export the flow graphs into multiples pages of a pdf instead of single page.

Most of the code is bit complicated and when the flow-graph is exported to a pdf, the entire graph is stored in a single page, rendering the graph dense and incomprehensible. Instead the graph should be split into multiple pages to ensure that the...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review