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Operating System/Virtualization

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Display server uptime in db2start summary written to db2diag.log

In addition to details about CPU and RAM that are currently reported in db2diag.log during db2start, include the server uptime duration.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 1 Not under consideration

Need DB2 LUW to support NUMA processor technology on Windows

The NUMA processor group technology is currently not supported by DB2 v10.5 and up for Windows. I would like IBM to add support for this feature in DB2 v10.5 and up as soon as possible in order to take full advantage of my server. (Currently runni...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

DB2 data server client for Mac OS

There are different Data Server clients for many platforms (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg213852170. However, for Mac OS there is only the DS.It is necessary to have a Runtime Client for this platform.The only way to have it, is...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 3 Not under consideration

Add support AIX 7.1 for Db2 11.5.4

I support my customers system which runs DB2 ESE on AIX 7.1. We were on DB2 10.5 and upgraded this Summer to 11.5 which compatibility reports showed as a supported configuration. Now that we are looking at applying 11.5.4 fixpacks, I'm finding the...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW should support 1GB pages on Linux x64 platform

When using VMWare as Host System for (RH) Linux we are able to configure 1GB Pages like: sched.mem.lpage.enable1GPage = "TRUE" On the other hand DB2 on Linux Redhat Guest System right now does only support huge (2MB) pages per IBM DB2 documentatio...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Support for running on Amazon Linux 2

Add Amazon Linux 2 as a supported operating system for running Db2.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

please add support for RHEL7.7 to Db2 11.5.9

Currently, RHEL 7.7 is not included in the supported OS for Db2 11.5.9. Additionally, fix information and vulnerability countermeasures have been updated since Db2 11.5.7, which is currently in use, and customers are requesting that vulnerabilitie...
9 months ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

New Redhat ipcmni_extend setting Recommendation in the DB2 Infocentre

Hello, Db2 Luw seems to be a victum of Redhat change https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4968021 The change is effective of Redhat 7.8+, where you need to set ipcmni_extend to allow db2 to request more then 32k of MSGMNI as per https://www.ibm.com...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

better logging for stack overflow, ulimit stack to small

With this PMR we were searching quite hard for the reason, why a 3rd-party-software was dying with segmentation fault in dynamic linked shared library libdb1.so We could only see:Feb 18 09:01:56 smtcb00254 kernel: [1270273.292859] os4x_licinfo[365...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Enable DB2 instances on AUFS (Docker)

DB2 can be installed on AUFS, but database instances cannot be created (see https://github.com/jeffbonhag/db2-docker/issues/2#issuecomment-52920986). DB2 express (and every other edition) uses O_DIRECT to access the file system, which is not avail...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration