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Allow binding a tenant into a database alias in the catalog

It would make managing tenancy easier for a dba if the applications could use an alias bame to connect to a certain tenant in a database auyomatically without other changes to the application or uts connection configuration. It could be something ...
1 day ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Azure Blob storage on SUSE Linux for Db2 12.1.3

We would like to configure our backup to use Microsoft Azure Blob. Do you have step by steps how to configure CATALOG STORAGE ACCESS and use DB2REMOTE ? It seems it work for S3 storage on Linux SUSE, but it doesn't work with Microsoft Azure Blob o...
1 day ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Make UTF-8 validation optional for user functions

Please add an option to the CDC config to switch UTF-8 validation on and off. This can be narrowed down to %USER functions - currently CDC always does UTF-8 validation for such definitions, even if a column is marked 'binary'. In our environment, ...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Create TABLESPACE IF NOT EXISTS

Some objects in Db2 LUW can use the IF NOT EXISTS in a CREATE (or IF EXISTS in a DROP), e.g. for TABLE. But the option is not available for Tablespaces. I believe it is available in other RDMS products e.g. SQL Server. Could the option be extended...
22 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

OpenTelemetry

Please develop an OpenTelemetry Interface for DB2, so that at least on a top level, DB calls can be traced. Ideally, it could be brokwn down to more detail.
14 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

CDC could check in advance whether the log record provided by IFI 306 can be discarded, as in cases of records originating from utilities such as REBUILD INDEX.

Today we have some REBUILD INDEXES that run on very large NPI indexes, as consequence of LOAD INDEXDEFER NPI. These REBUILD INDEXES last some hours to finish. We noticed IBM CDC for Db2 z/OS follows units of recovery (URs) generated by these REBUI...
about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Sequence number, row number of the record

When using MySQL DB as a source and in case of multiple transactions done in the same commit cycle, there is no way to know the sequence of executed transactions. In the journal control fields, there is a commit cycle id (CCID), this is same for m...
10 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Add support for heterogenous DDL replication from a DB2 LUW source to a DB2 LUW target

Our customers use CDC 11.4 to replicate tables between DB2 LUW 11.5. When adding new column or altering column in these replication tables, they hope to minimise the replication downtime between the source and target DB. However, the CDC only supp...
15 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

We need the Oracle Instant Client to be supported by CDC Replication Engine.

We are requesting IBM official support for the Oracle Instant Client with CDC Replication. These items have been identified by IBM as potential exposures with the Oracle Instant Client: - No official support for CDC with Oracle Instant Client. Ora...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Add a way to wait for bufferpool creation when creating tablespaces

What we do when creating tablespaces as part of migration files (think flyway, but any similar utility will be relevant) is to create a bufferpool and then create the tablespace. Example: create bufferpool dummy size 5000 pagesize 8k; create table...
23 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review