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Disable default WITH GRANT OPTION privileges on user-created objects

Currenty on Db2 LUW / Datawarehouse version 12.1 if an end user has CREATEIN privileges on a schema by a role (Role Based Access Control) then the user gets 7 implicit privileges on that newly created object, WITH GRANT OPTION. The end user can no...
12 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Under review

System temporality slowness on Db2wh

System temporal tables are part of the type two of slow changing dimensions, this assists in tracking changes that happens on the data by preserving historical accuracy. These tables have two tables, The BASE table and the HISTORY table. When reco...
5 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

Db2 warehouse on RHEL 8

Currently Db2 warehouse isn't supported on RHEL 8. Our enterprise is upgrading all RHEL servers to version 8 and Db2wh is not compatible. So need IBM's help to provide us with DB2wh build that supports RHEL 8
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Planned for future release

To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Submitted

Db2 Warehouse in CP4D - NFS v4 support

We are using NFS for Db2 warehouse backups of a Database of 6TB. But doing it with mount nfs v3, no lock option, takes about 3x time that doing it with nfs v4. Doing the backups with nfs v4 works fine in our environment, but in documentation, it s...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

The request is to add Keyed cryptographic hashing on Card details in HDFC Bank Project

Currently some of the Db2 tables which contains CARD details are using hash function for cryptographic purposes. As per updated security policy of HDFC Bank, hashing is not sufficient and we need to do Keyed cryptographic hashing.
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 2 Under review

UMS UI to support creating an Application that contains Global Variable

It is not currently possible to create an application using the UI that imports Global Variables. Support for Global Variables needs to be provided.
6 months ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Under review

Support Provisioning an instance to a Schema where objects already exist

We need the ability to deploy a DOE instance into a Db2 where objects with the target schema name already exist. This is required, for example, if we have PLAN_TABLEs pre-provisioned for a given schema, or if we later determine that we need additi...
6 months ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Under review

Provide an API that enables you to identify the Application an object is defined in

We have hundreds of UMS applications and it is not easy to determine in what application and object is defined - or whether it is already defined in an application. This request is to provide an API that will enable us to supply an object name, an...
6 months ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Under review

NCOS support for GCP

None of the Google Cloud's object storage is supported for customers to move cold data onto a partitioned table. That makes hosting a db2warehouse on Google Cloud very expensive and cost prohibitive. Need native support for GCP
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Future consideration