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Db2

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Reference to undeclared column should result in RC08, instead of RC04

In the COBOL program an INCLUDE statement is used where a DCLGEN is declared. The copybook ZSTBF02 is attached. When the COBOL source contains an SQL statement where a column is used which is not declared in the DCLGEN, a warning is issued in the ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

EXPORT to local (not server) using the ADMIN_CMD

The export calle from admin_cmd can only export to the server. There should be a way to export in the client when called the SP,
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

List Partitioning

Allow to partition a table using a list of values (known as list partitioning).
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Automatic Archive Log Pruning when Non-Db2 Snapshots are used

Db2 on Cloud Pak for Data, OpenShift, k8s (a.k.a Db2U) primarily relies on k8s or Velero Volume Snapshots. However, Log archiving is enabled by default in Db2U. Therefore, even when automatic log pruning is enabled, since the backup happens outsid...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0

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

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
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

LOAD utility, which run towards to a partition table, should allow other query processing insert/update to other partitions.

The requests for the enhancement of DB2 LOAD utilities so as to run LOAD utility in a specific partition table during the other query processing like select/update/insert/delete on the other partitions in one partition table.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

HADR PS MEM restore

背景:HADR+PS环境,主端ps的mem0节点宕机无法恢复,利用新设备以mem0的身份加入集群问题:当新设备以mem0身份加入时报错,由于集群拓扑结构发生变化数据库处于inconsistent状态,所以无法将MEM0重新加入,当拓扑结构发生变化时不应该影响数据库的一致性;
about 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Deploy new/unused packages without causing performace impacts

With current DB2(V11.1 FP2, FP4), Deploying a new or an unused packages causing variation and catalog locks impacting performance. HOLDHDL WAITHDL HOLDER WAITER HOLDMODE OBJTYPE TABNAME SCHEMA SECS STMTTEXT ---------- ------- ---------- ------...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration