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External Table support for Db2 running on Windows

Db2 running under Linux allows currently to use external tables. For testing, production use, migration and completeness those feature should also be available for the Windows (and other OS) platform. Especially as this is a potential replacement ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Support Snapshot Isolation Level

Today, when our ETL jobs scan large amounts of data from a table with out using RS/RR isolation levels under certain conditions they see duplicate data and/or missing data. This could be caused due to the fact that rows that were already scanned c...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

KnowledgeCentrer on Docker

Sometimes the knowledgeCenter is not reacheable or it is not working for different reasons, and the access for the documentation becomes an issue. For this reason, I suggest to have the KnowledgeCenter downloadable as a Docker image, as it was pos...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Support IBM DB2 on Amazon Linux2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has End of life as April 2021. We use IBM DB2 11.1.4 Enterprise Edition on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for our MDM instances which is not compatible with the higher versions of Ubuntu -18.04 LTS and above. Same is true for the updated versio...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

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almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server Runtime Client support on Red Hat OpenShift

We are using Red Hat OpenShift to access "external" Db2 databases. We have a "IBM Data Server Runtime Client" in each container in a OpenShift POD, one or more containers per POD. OpenShift uses overlayFS with overlay2-driver where the the client ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Generate UUIDs in DB2

Oracle (sorry to compare!) has ability to generate a UID. We are looking for this function in DB2 Zos and LUW. Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) -- In Oracle Oracle sequences are frequently used to provide unique numbers for primary keys where an...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration

default tablespace for a user

in DB2 there is no way to fix a default tablespace of user.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Error SQL0478N should include schema name

When issuing a sentence like: db2 drop audit policy SELECT_ALL_TABLES The returned error message does not include the schema of the problematic object: SQL0478N The statement failed because one or more dependencies exist on thetarget object....
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Documentation with return type for scalar functions

The documentation of the knowledgeCenter should explicitly describe the type the returned value. I mean, if it is an integer, a char, a timestamp, etc.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration