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Db2

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let db2adutl work cross-dbpartition on one LPAR, as it did before

Before DB2 11.5.8.0.1 db2adutl could work on different dbpartitions on the same LPAR.Now it throws an error that input database partition number/current database partition number are different, if DB2NODE is not explicitly set.db2adutl should be a...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Is a defect

Encryption at tablespace level

Allow to encrypt at the tablespace level. Add the encrypt keyword in the create tablespace command
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Can access federation object in the trigger body

The db2 instance have multiple database, and customer want to access a user table that locate in another database through Db2 trigger .
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

DB2 to add support for alter table without going on need for reorg immediately and allow full access (read,write,alter...etc)

After setting compatibility vector to ORA, we expect alter table to not affect read/write access. In our test, we see that after dropping even a single column, table goes in reorg_pending = Y status and we can not use reorg inplace to continue ins...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Db2 autonomic computing daemon 5 minute polling window

Decrease (or make adjustable) the 5 minute polling time for the Db2 autonomic computing daemon to discover new tasks deployed through the Administrative Task Scheduler.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 1 Not under consideration

LOAD utility should allow huge loads to run with out blocking transactional log files

Please let me explain more about how i look at LOAD utility.LOAD utility is a way to write data into database quickly by ignoring the traditional route into the system, like query processing insert/update/delete.LOAD utility will by pass many perf...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to recover an individual table

We need the ability to recover an individual table faster. HPU does not work weel on VLDB databases as it does not support pipes and there is no indexing of tables within a TS in a backup image.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance of DB2 BLU SQL with the GROUP BY subquery

Our customer newly built the DWH system using DB2 BLU.But certain SQL's performance is extremely bad.Problem SQLs are with the GROUP BY subquery and the SET clause subselect.STSC says it‘s a matter of architecture, not a problem and they offered...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Planned for future release

Alert user about abnormal tablespaces on standby

In a HADR configuration typically customers use db2pd -hadr on the standby to monitor the state. On the standby if there is a problem with one of the tablespaces it'll be marked invalid and future log records against the tablespace will be skipped...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Enhance CREATE TABLESPACE or CREATE TABLE to have MEMBER CLUSTER for PureScale

We want to be able to have tablespace use MEMBER CLUSTER for PureScale just like the mainframe.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration