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Db2

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Cant create a db2 service

Can't create a db2 service
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

External Stored Procedure sub modules to be loaded from same path as 'external name;

DB2 supports multiple (in our case development) databases within a db2 Instance and External Stored Procedures (in our case COBOL) can be developed in parallel by using different qualifiers in the external name e.g. alter procedure cxjjp.UIXN01 ex...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Set integrity at schema level

Allow to do a set integrity at the schema level
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

UTL_ENCODE.BASE64_ENCODE and BASE64_DECODE support

Request for official support of UTL_ENCODE module and.BASE64_ENCODE procedure, that is not documented in Infocenter 10.5 but is available in DB2 LUW. Request for creation and support of UTL_ENCODE.BASE64_DECODE procedure.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

UNIQUE INDEXES over BIGINT column can't be compressed

unique indexes over id columns (bigint) are not compressed whereas the same unique index over decimal column gets compressedindex compression for unique indexes is urgently needed to reduce disk and memory footprint
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Manually confirm whether to switch before TSAMP+HADR automatically switches

In the TSAMP+hadr environment, in the event of a failure, TSAMP will directly switch the active/standby relationship. Sometimes, it may solve the A machine failure recovery time, especially the AB machine transmits a large transaction log. Therefo...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

BigSql Strengthening on node failure

BigSql is built upon db2 database but it thus miss a major architecture philosophy of Hadoop:" handle failure "If you launch a query and one of the designated worker node fails (hardware failure) then the request fails instead of being restarted o...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

Transform relational data in a JSON document

Add a feature to transform the relational data in a JSON document. Maybe something simplest than xquery should be developed. For example, hierarchy in a JSON document matches with the relational dependencies (parent - dependent - dependent ) . So ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / NoSQL 0 Not under consideration

mixed case sensitive support for db2 luw on linux platform

On linux and other Unices, connecting to db2 luw with users having capital letters into their user name is not possible since the db2 security components, I guess the standard OS security plugin, assume that usernames are all lower cases.This beha...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

VSAI support Community-Edition and Trial-Editions of Visual-Studio-2017

Request for Db2-LUW VSAI (Visual Studio Add In) to support the COMMUNITY EDITION and TRIAL-VERSIONs of "Visual Studio 2017". At present, the VSAI setup program throws DBI20056E for Visual-Studio-2017-COMMUNITY-EDITION and 30-day trial versions of ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration