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Db2

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Turn on reclaimable storage without dropping/recreating the tablespaces

After a migration from db2 9.5 to 10.1, several days passed, and we reached the maximum size of a DMS tablespace of 4K. We moved one table to a different tablespace, but still noticed that the free pages were equal to 0. We tried to execute the al...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Future consideration

Breakdown of Estimated performance gain percent value for each Recommended Indexes (Used in Plan = "Y") in WhatIf Analysis

As per attached screenshot, there are 4 recommended indexes together provide 42.62% of Estimated Performance again if they are created. Its not possible to pick any one or two indexes instead of all the four indexes. If 1 of the 4 recommended inde...
7 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Full support for aggregate function with DISTINCT in OLAP SPECIFICATION

Use of DISTINCT with e.g. COUNT function in OLAP specification (PARTITION BY clause) returns error SQL0441N (SQLCODE -441). Due to the fact that Db2 does NOT support the use of DISTINCT option in such cases, we have a major impact with COGNOS gene...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Remove Group Based Access Limitation

Description of Limitation: IBM has defined a few limitations with role based access which include the following: A role cannot own database objects. Permissions and roles granted to groups are not considered when you create the following database ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Security 2 Future consideration

Provide a documented and supported procedure to generate ddl (db2look as SP - like db2lk_generate_ddl)

db2lk_generate_ddl is a stored procedure that provides functionality to generate DDL via SQL (similar to db2look which is a tool as db2llok cannot be executed througha SQL client tool. This function already exists but is not documented and I am no...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration

Enable classic reorg with "allow write access"

Many customers want to REORG their tables quickly and efficiently. The classic REORG is by far the fastest option but puts the table in read only mode. Inplace reorg allows write access but is much slower and not suitable for tables that have a hi...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 3 Future consideration

IBM Infosphere Data Replication Management Console – DB2 LUW LOAD Utility.

Change Data Capture (CDC) Subscriptions mirroring from DB2 LUW to Event Server (JMS) are constantly failing due to some LOADs performed on DB2 LUW side. We must manually recycle affected LOAD table whenever they fail to restart the subscriptions f...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Replication 1 Submitted

Switch the "IBM Data Server Client" over to an MSI installer for Windows machines

Currently the installer uses an ancient InstallShield installer that is a nightmare to roll out. It would be nice if it could be transitioned over to an MSI installer because those are easier to uninstall and roll out.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review

Decouple archive log purging from BACKUP utility

For databases using AUTO_DEL_REC_OBJ, at the end of the BACKUP utility there is a synchronous process which purges any history records and their associated archive logs. This can take a very long time on busy systems. It is necessary to decouple t...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Use package collection other than NULLID for CLP and Db2 Utilities

Db2/zOS colleagues want to get rid of lock issues with rebind of packages in schema NULLID, thus the decided to have Db2/zOS release specific package collections to provide actual and rebound packages for every Db2 release to the distributed (Db2/...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

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