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Installation & Upgrade

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db2u-operator should be available in OperatorHub.io

Our OpenShift environments require a certified source for OpenShift-operators: OperatorHub.ioCurrently db2u is not available there, what prevents us from deploying the operator in our environment. By mirroring a db2u-repository from OperatorHub.io...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

RPM Package for IBM DB2 Software Installation

Summary: Request for IBM to provide an RPM package for the installation of IBM DB2 software to facilitate easier deployment, management, and integration on RHEL. Description: IBM DB2 widely used database management system in our company. To improv...
4 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

DB2 LUW CSB Automatic Online installation

Hi Team, Currently IBM publishes their new CSB for db2 LUW databases on regular basis. But there is no feature in db2 LUW to get it installed automatically. My proposal here is to enable db2 LUW to have some feature which will allow CSB Automatic ...
4 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Include latest Java version for DB2 in interim Fixes and special builds

DB2 special builds that address security vulnerabilities do not include the latest available Java version for DB2. If you update Java for DB2 to the latest available version on FixCentral and later apply a special build, Java is replaced with an o...
4 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

db2prereqcheck on AIX should detect presence of a soft link for /usr/bin/python3 as it is required by some pureScale cluster components

db2prereqcheck contains code to check the presence of python3. This is required for pureScale (GPFS in particular). However, if the softlink in /usr/bin/python3 is missing, when upgrading from Db2 11.5.8 to 11.5.9, db2prereqcheck doesn't log any m...
5 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Misleading Statement in Db2 documentation on CSBs of given Fixpack

The automated implementation of updates to the most recent CSB would be significantly easier, if one could rely on CSB number only. So, it would be helpful for customer's processing of CSBs and its implementation. In Description for CSBs, e.g., he...
5 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Submitted

Automatic migration of EXPLAIN tables in db2 LUW

Dear Team, We have seen whenever we migrate to higher version of db2 luw, the explain tables are not automatically migrated. We need to manually drop and recreate the explain tables to avoid errors like SQL0206N, SQL0220N, SQL1184N. As db2 modific...
6 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Automate the clean up of orphan rows in the database catalogs during the db2ckupgrade processing.

We have been dealing with orphan rows in the database catalogs for many years now. The first tool to deal with this was db2cleancat and it has gone through various iterations to address all of the various flavors of this type of issue and now has ...
7 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Restrict World Readable permission on Instance home directories for DB2 on Linux

/home/<intance directory> is with world readable permission amd it is considered as major risk on security. Instance home directory defaults to /home and any directory with world readable permissions on /home is tagged with highest security ...
7 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Do some more checking when Db2 fixpack is installed - like will fixpack be working after instance upgrade

On my test computer Linux x86_64, Db2 v11.5.8.0 is installed and I decided to upgrade to v11.5.9.0. 1. I checked prerequisite and everything was successful. ./db2prereqcheck -i -s -v 11.5.9.0 2. I installed Db2 server and installation was s...
12 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration