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Db2

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Functions for converting Unix Epoch Time and Dealing with RHEL 8 Native Posix MQ

SQL scalar functions for Converting between human-readable date/time and Unix Epoch Time. For example: db2 "values ept2date(123456789,0)" is equivalent to Linux GNU date command date -d "1970-01-01 1234567890 sec UTC db2 "values "date2ept('now')" ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

DB2 LUW support for CentOS 8 Stream

As announced in December of 2020, The CentOS Project has shifted focus from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream. Here are the expected end of life (EOL) dates for CentOS 8release. CentOS Linux 8 EOL: 2021-12-31 Today DB2 11.5.6 is certificated/compatibl...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Block locking for U/D on MDC when LOCKSIZE=BLOCKINSERT

Block locking is done for INSERTs on MDC tables when LOCKSIZE = BLOCKINSERT, which is a great benefit for memory usage, and allow to parallelize treatments for different dimensions. However, this is unsufficient, because treatments do also Update/...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Simple federated query against SQL Server nickname with predicate on partial PK takes 150+ sec vs 0.1 sec against source db

The following query takes a long time when running against SQL Server nickname. See case TS001550410 for more details select *from nn.PAT_ENC_APPT_NOTESwhere PAT_ENC_CSN_ID ='99999999'
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Tablespace reports rollforward pending after an HADR takeover report success

Banco do Brasil built a DR site and deployed a DB2 Purescale with HADR between these sites.HADR is in peer state. Then customer perform a takeover to switch HADR roles between sites.After the takeover finished successfully we tried to activate the...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Trusted Context should be usable with static SQL

Trusted context or trusted connection is a security feature, which enables customers to differentiate between applications connecting to a database, based on whether they originate from a trusted or from a NON trusted client system.This works pret...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Planned for future release

NX842 hardware accelerated backup and log file compression for PPCLE

NX842 HW accelerated backup and log file compression is available on AIX. Why is it not available on PPCLE. All recent Linux distrubutions has kernel support for accessing this hardware accelerator.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Not under consideration

Adding storage path to specific partition

Recently I faced a problem on a DPF environment. I had raised below case with IBM and seems as of now this is not possible. In DPF environment, how can I add storage path to a specific database partititon? The below command adds the storage path t...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Warehouse 0 Future consideration

Start bufferpool command

New db2 commands to start / reallocate the bufferpool : start bufferpool bp32k ;
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Wrap tables

Create a new type of table based on the size or on the time.create table packagevent (.... ) with history based 1 year on event_timestamp / 1Gb. It could be an ITC table. The oldest data / extent are automatically reused when new data is added and...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration