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Db2

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Builtin function to convert unix timstamps

A lot of applications using unix timestamps (number of seconds since 1970-01-01). For example DMC (Data Management Console) is using this. For DBAs and application developer it would be much easier to have a builtin function to convert this unix t...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 0 Future consideration

Test Shell Button for access by shell

In the Connection Profiles you have to add username and password for accessing Db2. As well there's a button 'Test connection' to test the connection. When you define user defined alerts in your monitoring profile you're able to define sql and she...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Add description of views and columns of SYSCAT schema directly into SYSCAT

Good morning, may I ask You, if it is possible to add comments (SQL comand COMMENT ON ...) into SYSCAT schema views and their columns in future versions of Db2? I mean some extract of documentation ended by HTTP link to the appropriate web documen...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Single self-contained Windows DLL for .net5/6

With Oracle or Microsoft, we have the possibility to just reference one DLL to get full access to those RDBMS without driver installation. The latest Nuget packages are a nice addition, but publishing a project with VS releases the full clidriver ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Multi Temperature Storage support for pureScale

Alter tablespace using STOGROP is not currently supported in a pureScale environement. The request is relieving this restriction.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Allow users to force their own connections.

Allow users without sysadm,sysctrl or sysmaint to force their own connections. Attaching e-mail thread on the topic: Walid Rjaibi/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA07/31/09 09:46 AM To Hebert Pereyra/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA cc Dimitri Milionis/Phoenix/IBM@IBMUS Subject...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

BLU should tolerate Tools and Applications which are currently not BLU-aware

We currently employ with the introduction of db2 v10.5 BLU for our DWH. Our plan is to store almost all data in columns store. Just in exceptional cases tables should be stored row oriented. That's why we have set the registry variable DB2_WORKLOA...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Not under consideration

CTAS locks syscat.tables

Reproduce Scenario and found to be a expected behavior while CTAS locks syscat.tables session 1 > create table Table1 as (select * from Table_2 ) with data; session 2, query tool > select * from syscat.tables; --> lock waiting
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

DB2 BLU non-unicode database support for non-identity collation sequence

We currently run on DB2 LUW 10.5.0.6 where our database is created using DB2 API with c-program.The major reason to do this is to support collating sequence similar to EBCDIC as DB2 z/OS is the source of our data.This makes the Database collating ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Tablespaces restore takes quite too long

I doubt that the concept for a tablespace restore includes reading all other tablespace blocks of the backup image.For me if i restore only a tablespace which is some 10% of the whole database the restore should consider that.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration