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Store auditing information directly in a table ( this option does not require files )

Allow DB2 to configure auditing to store auditing information in a table. Information could be retrieved using SELECT commands and there is no need to use system procedures or utilities like db2audit to extract information from files. The purpose ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Not under consideration

Tool to check SSL certificate connectivity with KEYSECURE

Need some way to check if provided SSL certificate for secured connection to KEYSECURE is indeed valid before putting it in kmip cfg. This reduces the risk of any issues with SSL certificate on actual implementation day on production system.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Use trusted logging with db2audit to protect audit data from instance users and root

On Aix there is a trusted logging which can be used by syslog and AIX auditing. It would be nice if db2 can use this as well to store its audit data. At the moment it is written to Audit Data Path. It would be nice if this can be a character mode ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Encryption at tablespace level

Allow to encrypt at the tablespace level. Add the encrypt keyword in the create tablespace command
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Update SYSMON_GROUP Authority to include privileges needed for db2top (and other monitoring type functions)

Revisit db2top and dcmtop access requirements to identify the basic monitoring features which require privileges above and beyond sysmon_group privileges and update Db2 to have the sysmon_group given all necessary permissions
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Not under consideration

Encrypted column support being deprecated, what else is available?

With DB2 LUW 11.1 the encrypt and decrypt, decrypt_char, decrypt_bin, etc functions are being deprecated. We already have all of the data encrypted on the disk with the disk subsystem so using an encrypted database does me no good. I need to be ab...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

DDL creation support thru implicit trusted connection

Trusted context is a very good security mecanism to promote a user from an application server to a specific role. We face 2 problems:- DDL issued from Siebel application server, when applying a change, fails for CREATE TABLE- If user has no direct...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Let a change of a SYS*_GROUP in the dbm cfg be reflected in the db2audit secmaint.del-file next to/instead of in db2diag.log

For security monitoring purposes every 30 minutes our production db2audit-files are archived, extracted and uploaded to a special security server for analysis purposes. However very important information is missing: when changing a SYS*_GROUP, the...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Modify permissions on DB2/LUW installation directories

During installation and instance creation of DB2/LUW ESE (and AESE), the following directories are create as world writable (OTHER permissions of 777) without the sticky bit set: sqllib/db2dump/DIAG0000sqllib/db2dump/eventssqllib/tmpsqllib/uifsqll...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add support for database SINGLE_USER mode access

Time to time there is requirement to be the only user on the database like drop and create database, but there are also users with system authorizations connected to database. Or there is product (even from IBM) like Maximo: https://www.ibm.com/su...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration