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    Enhancing Guidance and Documentation for Db2: Recommendations for New Features and Db2 Performance Resources.

    Customer is using Db2 with 4K_DEVICE OS(z/Linux) and they were unsure whether to enable the new DB2_4K_DEVICE_SUPPORT feature and requested an improvement because they did not have enough information to make a decision. Improvement of Guidance on ...
    10 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 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.
    10 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 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...
    17 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

    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...
    19 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

    The basic commands should have an option to output machine processable format like JSON

    Using automation tools like Ansible would benefit greatly if commands like db2cm, db2ls, db2 li node/db directory, db2 db/dbm cfg and so on would be able output in JSON format.
    about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

    Skip db2prereqcheck for x86 Linux packages as an option

    db2prereqcheck may still "complain" about missing x86 Linux packages. Example: [root@db2v121vm1 ~] # cat /etc/os-release NAME= "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" VERSION= "9.2 (Plow)" [...] [root@db2v121vm1 server] # ./db2prereqcheck -i -l 32-Bit "/lib/li...
    about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

    XES IRLM Requests

    We want to see that total number for XES IRLM requests on TEPS situation. There are just Db2 Global Contention and Db2 False Contention attributes from Db2 Group Coupling Facility attributestable to create the situations.
    about 2 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

    SQL0659N to supply relevant data

    When a query fails with SQL0659 ("Maximum size of a table object has been exceeded") there is no indication of which object is at fault. In the execution I am examining there is also nothing relevant in the diagnostic log. An indication in the err...
    about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Submitted

    I would like to have Db2 11.5.5.1 supported in a Power10 environment on AIX Ver. 7.2 TL5 SP2.

    In order to implement Power10, the customer plans to migrate their current AIX 7.2 TL5 SP2 environment to the new Power10 environment. However, their current version of Db2, version 11.5.5.1, is not supported, so they would like to have it support...
    about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

    MON_GET_CONNECTION to show the SSL protocol information for DPF

    Please enhance MON_GET_CONNECTION to show the SSL protocol information for DPF when the client connects toa non-catalog partition. This was highlighted in TS020092882 case "DPF-Non-Catalog-Node-Connection-Is-Not-SSL"This is useful to show correct ...
    2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

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