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Db2

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Default of for read only for all select statements

As you might have noticed, the "for read only" clause of the select statement in DB2 is not widely known nor used. Most standards select statements going through the DB2 engine have the risk of becoming an ambiguous cursor with sub-optimal perform...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

STANDBY_RECV_REPLAY_GAP to be monitored in DMC which is not available at present

We have Standby log receiving enabled for 30 GB. But we are looking for additional parameter as STANDBY_RECV_REPLAY_GAP which is not getting monitored in DMC . Kindly help to get it enabled.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Functionality already exists

Support converting non-restricted databases to restricted databases in Db2

There can be legacy databases created with non-restricted mode. However as security policies get stringent there is need to convert these databases into restricted databases. The way to convert currently is to recreate the database from scratch. I...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Support for UR requested with column organized tables

Actually we're preparing a new Warehouse on DB2 BLU 11.5.5 on AIX using column organized tables. In an early technical examination we found, that concurrent access under isolation level UR ( reporting application ) and updating the same rows will ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Add an ooption to export column names in the csv file

Add an option to the export utility to include the column names in the del file.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Schema Transport in PureScale

Add Schema Transport Support in PureScale. Allow ESE to PS and PS to ESE across codepage transport at the schema level.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Skip REORG evaluation if offline maintenance window equal 1 or 2 hours

Reorg table can be run twice during offline maintenance window. This is not acceptable behavior because it can exhaust the window time on the same table. Secondly, it is also possible to put in queue the same REORG TABLE that will be run the next ...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DB2 to incorporate a feature equivalent to Oracles Flashback(RIMS)

We have an official request from executive management ((John Mikkelsen) for DB2 to incorporate a feature equivalent to Oracles Flashback. Eric Egdorf DB2 LUW Support Verizon Business 719-535-4289 Verizon recently had an outage that they feel coul...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Ease use of ROS in high volume transaction system utilizing DGTT on Primary db

Trying to utilize ROS to offload reports and heavy queries from Primary Database. Hence we should be able to scale the workload on the Primary, once these are moved away form here. But does not work out for us. Queries are getting forced off often...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 1 Is a defect

Add Container Management Software PodMan to Db2Rest API

Docker is not allowed in our environment. Podman is lighter. We are Openshift and Redhat so Podman fits better for us. Containers running in Docker should work with Podman with little or no changed.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration