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Db2

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Differentiate between Read and Write IO performance (Overhead and TransferRate) and optimise accordingly

Background: Db2 is sensitive to IO performance, and compiles access plans accordingly to optimise IO versus CPU costs. At the tablespace level, average Overhead and TransferRate are configured in units of milliseconds. Issue: customers such as our...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

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

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

Support for minimally logged indexes on HADR-enabled databases

Provide ability to create non-logged (or minimally logged) indexes on HADR-enabled databases such that they get created on the standby databases as well.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 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 very...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Slow database activate

DB activation is too slow because of lots of tablespace containers. My customer think so much time is spent to check or open all tablespace containers. Please consider design change for faster activation.
about 7 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. Tar...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration