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Db2

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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...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

DB2oC UI logon acceptance user name size greater than 20 characters

DB2oC User Interface is a smart way to access administration roles in a DB2oC instances. DB2oC UI has a limit of 20 (twenty) characters to user name size. In my company, for security purposes, we priorize logon proccess that uses IBMCloud App-ID s...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Explain product names in installer

When installing, a name like CONSV o RTCL are not clear for people entering into the world of Db2. These names should be explained in from of them, like CONSV - Db2 Connect for zOS o i RTLN - Data server runtime client
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Change Table space page size during Redirected Restore

Hi,I kindly request for having the ability to change the table space page size during a redirected restore operation.Thanks
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Are sparse files supported by Db2

During a Restore of sparse files - where a large file is allocated, but is not fully created physically (preparation and population of many of the underlying blocks is deferred until they are needed)
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Not under consideration

Can we get timestamp, DBNAME from archive log

Usually our Db2 backs up to storage server or natively. Occasionally we restore a Db2 system in another operating center from where we have to access to the storage server for Restore/rollforward. In the target environment the Db2 archive logs are...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Functionality already exists

autoexplain

Hi, With postreSQL, it is possible to have execution plans of slow statements automatically, without having to run EXPLAIN by hand. Wtih differents formats : text, xml, json, yaml. These plans are generated when a query exceeds a duration, the val...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Allow table compression to be disabled for DGTTs and CGTTs

In short: OLTP applications frequently encounter performance issues because DB2 enables table compression by default for all DGTTs / CGTTs. Details from a real-time example: When inserting 40K rows to a DGTT, it takes 2 seconds. When we immediatel...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Do not truncate trailing blanks in columnar Group By

BLU columnar engine does not carry trailing blanks in varchar columns during GROUP BY processing. It does not bring non-normalized variant through the grouping operation
about 4 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration