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Db2

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using none unique index to accelerate update and delete on column-organized

there is a limitation (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_11.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.perf.doc/doc/r0061828.html) Update and delete operations that use an index scan on a column-organized table are not supported by the FETCH opera...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Master key rotation in HADR is not in transactional sequence even in SYNC mode

IN Encryption at rest - HADR scenario, master key rotation on primary is not getting shipped to standby immediately (relatively) in SYNC mode. Seems it needs explicit ARCHIVE LOG command to rotation key on standby.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Mirror LUW Db2 history file

The RFE is to improve database integrity, backup and recovery. Db2 has a "history file" that tracks things such as backups, rollforward, log archive, etc. The history file exists in the database path (DBPATH) directory. There are two history files...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

db2val should allow to receive credencial as parameters

The db2val command cannot check databases when using a external security plugin like Centrify. In this case, this command should allow to specify the user and password to connect to a database.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Send alert in case no connection to database could be performed

We have several times the situation that DSM is not able to connect to a database.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Add a monitoring table function to return transaction ids along with their commit times.

Goldman Sachs needs to know all the insert/update/delete operations against all tables updated by 1000s of applications along with their commit times. They dont want to use a replication. They want to use triggers that will be triggered on I/U/D o...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Database level optimization guideline

Currently when there is a problem with the access plan of the query, we generally ask customer to use guideline. Sometimes they cannot use guideline and we ask then to use optimization profile. Optimization profile works fine but there is a ve...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DB2 User Defined Function(UDF) on zSeries to convert relational data from existing DB2 tables to JSON

I am looking for something similar in Mainframe described to the following URL which is available in DB2 for iSeries and not currently available on zOS DB2. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/sqlp/rbafyjsonpublishing.htm I th...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Error SQL0478N should include schema name

When issuing a sentence like: db2 drop audit policy SELECT_ALL_TABLES The returned error message does not include the schema of the problematic object: SQL0478N The statement failed because one or more dependencies exist on thetarget object....
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Add new option to create schema / alter schema

Add new options to create schema / alter schema to specify default tablespaces
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration