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Db2

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Make the Db2 Server and Client support ROWSET cursors

The Db2 server and client (Db2 Connect) today does not support ROWSET cursors. Support of Multirow Fetch Db2 Precompiler and embedded Runtime support the fetch of multiple rows by using a single FETCH statement. Db2 ESQL enables arrays to be passe...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 5 Delivered
138 VOTE

Grant insert, select, update and delete on a schema

Ability to grant insert, select, update and delete on a schema
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Delivered

Read On Standby (ROS) Access during Upgrade process LUW

During the version upgrade of Db2 LUW, the standby (ROS enabled) needs to be brought down - during the upgrade: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=udhadrhe-upgrading-db2-servers-in-hadr-environments-without-standby-reinitialization I wou...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery / Installation & Upgrade 1 Delivered

Make logprimary and logfilsiz online configurable

If workload increases on system, it might be necessary to adjust (typically increase) the available active log space. System downtime is not acceptable in our days. It is sufficient if the log files get resized before re-use and the amount of log ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 2 Delivered

Monitor element, or audit/diagnostic utility, that identifies TLS version of an active DB2 LUW connection (application or session)

We are on the path now to enforcing TLS 1.2 for all SSL at my company. To make it easier for developers, at this point we have enabled TLS 1.2 but are continuing to allow TLS 1.0 and 1.1 database connections. We are hesitant to simply disable TLS ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Delivered

IBM does not support SSL communications for 2-phase commit (DB2 & MQ)

TS010796788 : DB2 - SSL - Two-Phase commit failures We are mandate to close unsecured connections to DB2 by closing the TCP/IP connections to DB2. However, we are using 2 -phase commit in between MQ and DB2, which looks for TCP channel opened. As ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Security 4 Delivered

Reorg pending after three ALTER TABLE statements is not useful in 24x7 environment

After three ALTER TABLE statements (depending on the clause, but an error can be forced by changing type from VARCHAR to CHAR ) table switches into reorg pending state. This state can only be resolved by an offline reorg.Additional problem is that...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Delivered

Multifactor Authentication Support for db2connectactivate utility execution on z/OS Db2

We have a large amount of z/OS Db2 workload initiated from remote connections. Initially we used Db2 Connect servers to facilitate those connections but have recently moved to direct connections whicWackage. We use the db2connectactivate utility t...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Delivered

DB2 LUW: Intra-tablespace parallelism

Db2 V9.7 FP2: Intra-tablespace parallelism can reduce elapsed time for backups Starting in Version 9.7 Fix Pack 2, intra-tablespace parallelism was introduced and can be used during backups other than delta and incremental backups. Intra-tablespac...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Delivered

Avoid Single point of failure for Db2's critical files

If the critical files of Db2 damage, e.g. by erroneously deletion, file system corruption Db2 will no longer be available (#usable). Since some of the critical files are permanently updated a restore of the critical files does solve the problem. A...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Delivered