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Db2 on Cloud

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Stop, start and restart options for the db2 as a service instance

Stopping and starting instances can help optimize resource utilization and One of the primary advantages is cost savings. once the instance is stopped, cpu and memory can released back to the pool in the backend. and during the start operation, it...
9 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Support for Cluster Cloning with Alias Hostnames in Db2 High Availability Configurations

Customer would like to propose support for a cluster cloning procedure in Db2 environments where alias hostnames are used via /etc/hosts, without requiring reconfiguration through db2cm commands.Currently, this approach is technically feasible but...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Db2 on Cloud should provide the same redundancy/HA capability in the HADR nodes as it does on the primary nodes.

Db2 on IBM Cloud provide consumers with BCDR capabilities by allowing one or more HADR instances to be created in various regions and provides a simple push-button promotion process to affect DR fail-over/fail-back operations. However, when runnin...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Implementing a DB2 HADR Cluster Solution on AWS with Route53 in Place of Overlay IP.

As outlined in the IBM technote, implementing a DB2 HADR cluster using Overlay IPs presents several constraints. The Overlay IP must be unique within the VPC and on-premises environments and must adhere to the private IP address range specified in...
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 2

Korean Language Support in Database Assistant

Db2 Database Assistant needs to support the Korean language. For Korean customers, it should be able to process natural language in Korean so that the assistant AI chatbot can be effectively utilized, thereby enhancing DBA productivity.
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Capability of choosing a character set other than UTF8 on Db2 SaaS(IBM Cloud)

Users created and are running the database with a character set of "S-JIS" at on-premise DB2 environment. They'd like to migrate DB2 on-premise into Db2 SaaS(IBM Cloud)But users can NOT select the character set other than UTF8 on Db2 SaaS. If they...
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Clarification on Alter or Modify Time Column in syscat.procedures Admin View/Table

Hi Team, As part of SOX Audit, we were asked to get latest Alter or Modify time of procedures from syscat.procedures view. But only Create_Date column is found and Alter_Time column is not found. We were questioned why the syscat.procedures view d...
12 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 2 Functionality already exists

Additional Reminders - Leading to the work

It would be helpful if IBM can send 1-2 additional reminders to the client with relation to Scheduled Maintenance Notification.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

CORS settings should be controled by user in IBM Cloud DB2 service( like as Cloudant ).

In IBM Cloud, we can use DB2 not only via JDBC/ODBC but also via REST API(HTTP API): https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/db2-on-cloud/db2-on-cloud-v4 This is unique and nice feature. This could be a reason to choose DB2( than MySQL or PostgreSQL, .. ). ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

DB2 database backup on Google cloud storage

We can utilize Google cloud storage directly for the database backups.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 1 Future consideration