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Do not truncate trailing blanks in columnar Group By

BLU columnar engine does not carry trailing blanks in varchar columns during GROUP BY processing. It does not bring non-normalized variant through the grouping operation
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW RFE for concurrent LOAD on the same table (vote for 68667)

DB2 LUW does not allow multiple concurrent LOAD on the same range partitioned table or any table. For example, if I have 100 partitions. I can not load all partitions using separate partition files concurrently. [Suggesting load and attaching part...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Remove the restriction SQL1407N

When loading a table using a remote cursor on a table containing an XML colum, the load failed with the SQLCODE SQL1407N.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DB2 RCAC Masking usage enhancement

This is urgent request to enhance RCAC masking rule. We are using it on several systems but due to below limitation or bug we have to use static hardcoded values in the masking rule, which is lot of manual process and impose security risk. This fe...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Db2 should request logs in both Log Archive Method

When performing a roll forward, and the LOGARCHMETH1 is configured to a external mechanism like Netbackup, and LOGARCHMETH2 is a local disk, Db2 will ask the first method and wait for the log, even if it takes too long for retrieval. In this case,...
over 5 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

TSA - Not scalable

TSA Does not Scale, with each database added it consumes 5 - 8% CPU. In our system ZLinux this is the only option we have for auto failover. When we have 10 Databases we are now consuming 50 - 80% CPU just to run TSA and having to pay extra licens...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

allow LDAP based db2 instance user for PureScale instance creation

Right now instance creation and maintainance in PureScale (db2icrt/db2iupdt) requires that the db2 instance user is local, i.e. has an entry in local /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. This expose a huge problem for LDAP based environments like ours whe...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Incremental Runstats (modify existing statistics based on delta from previous statistics).(RIMS)

Customer requests an incremental runstats support. Specifically the ability for runstats to modify existing statistics based on the new data that came in or was modified after the previous runstats was invoked.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Event monitor creation, write to table option should allow to specify a tabkespace into which ALL the new tables should be created in

Create event monitor write to table option will create new tables.All the new tables are defined in a tablespace which db2 chooses. I want an option to specify a tablesapce name, in which ALL the new tables should get created in.
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration