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Prompt to confirm the Takeover

In certain scenarios a Tablespace wouldn't have a NORMAL state at the Standby database. Depending on how important is that Tablespace and if it would be easily get back to NORMAL state or not, the user could decide to decline the Takeover. A table...
25 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Submitted

Clear presentation in section_actuals, which part of the plan is currently running

It should be clear in section_actuals which part of the plan has actually "run" Please mark non-accessed lolepops as "-1" , "NA" in the section_actuals column of the activity table (event monitor for activities). Then this can be distinguished fro...
26 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Submitted

Db2 for LUW - Encryption of logfiles

For DR purposes: I can create an encrypted db backup with encrlib/encropts - and that backup can be taken to a "remote" S3 bucket - using keys,etc. So far so good. I would like to be able to do the same thing for either logarchmeth1 or logarchmeth...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Needs more information

Add DB2 Support for Named Curve X25519

Client is currently using named curve X25519 for some applications connecting to DB2 which is not currently supported. There is a need to provide support for this named curve as it could create potential issues with future applications that may be...
4 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

Copy-on-Write for Namespace Separation/Tenants

With the new namespace separation feature in 12.1, you could end up with a lot of duplicate data. If tenants could be created in a copy-on-write or delta aspect it would allow for each tenant to only consume space for the delta, instead of a full ...
5 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Support for NCOS on Db2 transactional (row tables)

Customers ( Like Zebra ) running on cloud (IAAS ) are incurring huge block storage costs. They can partition and move cold data to object storage and still be queryable from SQL engine.
5 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Under review

ALSM full mirror log support

Today, ALSM only extract once from primary log path. If mirror log path gets used, ALSM does not extract on mirror log path.
6 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Add Macro functionality to iaccess 11.0.8

On iAccess 6.0 for windows (e.g. IBM System iAccess for Windows R610 SI29455) , it was possible to use easy Macros/Scripts. These were textfiles starting with "Description=" in the first line, than line by line telling the machine what to do. For ...
10 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Add Arm64 support for Net.IBM.Data.Db2-osx

I am trying to use the dotnet library Net.IBM.Data.Db2-osx on an Apple Macbook M3 Pro, but it fails to work. I was told it is because the library does not support Arm64 systems. Can we add Arm64 support? See this thread for back story.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 4 Functionality already exists

Command 'db2pd -reorgs index' does not show info about the progress of reorg index with 'cleanup all' or 'reclaim extents'

There is a limitation to show info with db2pd -reorgs index for command like reorg indexes all for table ... allow write access cleanup all reclaim extents. It is possibile to monitor progress of reorg offline and online but not for the above case...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration