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Db2

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On the Database Summary Page need a global period choice so that all the sub topics like availability, responsiveness etc can give the summary for the selected period

On the Database Summary Page need a global period choice so that all the sub topics like availability, responsiveness etc can give the summary for the selected period. - This has been discussed with Jason Sizto.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Integrity Validation of SW and Updates

In order to complain with the Security Framework Controls of a product which uses Db2 connect SW the following requirement should be fullfilled: "Before applying the software and security updates, their legitimate source should be validated and in...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 2 Planned for future release

Save Results as CSV or XLSX in a JOB

CSV or XLSX could only save in a active session. in time of homeoffce you could not log in the hole time and wait for the results. In the case of long queries, you should be able to execute this query in the background as a JOB and then save the r...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Db2u without OpenShift

We have a cloud-native strategy that Db2u fits better than most other RDBMSes. We also have a fairly mature Kubernetes infrastructure. We would really like to run db2u on native Kubernetes, without OpenShift.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Planned for future release

dmctop should provide an option to monitor the load and table move

The dmctop could include a tool to see the progress of: loads admin move table roll forward reorg
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 4 Planned for future release

Add Smartcard certificate support for ibm_db (Python) client driver

Python is the most popular language in the area of data science and widely used in combination with Db2 - especially in environments with IAS accelerators. At the same time, many large and/or security-concious environments in general no longer acc...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

Allow use of two factor authentication using smart cards for authentication for ODBC

Security requirements make us move to use two factor authentication when accessing Db2 for z/OS. We do have everything set up for the server side by using AT-TLS ServerWithClientAuth configuration for our Db2 for z/OS systems. We can also make Db2...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

db2cfexp lacks SSL configuration data

db2cfexp is a very valuable tool to save and maybe restore configuration data. I noticed, db2cfexp is not exporting SSL configuration and hence cannot restore it.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Planned for future release

Online index reorg for pureScale

Currently online index reorganization is not supported in Db2 pureScale environments and will fail with SQL1419N.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / pureScale / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 2 Planned for future release

National character data type support in non-unicode database like Oracle

Kookmin Bank is doing migration project from Oracle. Oracle based on national codepage such as MS949 supports the unicode data types such as NCHAR, NVARCHR, NCLOB. Now Db2 supports them in Unicode database. The requirement is asking to enable at...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 0 Planned for future release