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Online reorg with discard and allow parallel processing on data partitioned tables.

Db2 on Z has the capability. Would be implemented the same way by passing a where clause as a parameter to the reorg command. Anyone who has very large data partitioned tables that will require purging of data. Also allow online reorg to remove re...
about 7 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 on AWS RDS Submitted

Db2 Backup - Support for Google Cloud Storage

Db2 supports backup to S3 compatible interfaces. Support for Google Cloud Object Storage is required for some clients. Requesting enhancement to Db2 backup so a choice of cloud object storage can be leveraged. In this case Google Cloud Object Stor...
1 day ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools Under review

Dominik Baer

Operator V2 doesn't support changing volume size for DB2 containers. We have storage scale and changing the PV works, but DB2 doesn't acknowledge the resizing (enlarging) of the volume.This is one of many meaningful infrastructure related config p...
2 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Container Submitted

Support DB2 DPF with Pacemaker

Problem Statement / Real-Life Scenario We are using IBM Db2 DPF in a high-availability environment with Pacemaker. In our environment, each DPF member uses a dedicated 10Gb network for inter-member communication. However, when configuring netname ...
7 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Publish GPG signing key for RPM packages on ibm.com

With Db2 12.1.5 RPM-based installation was introduced. RPM tries to verify the integrity of an RPM based on a GPG signing key. Currently, this key is distributed through the .tar.gz file which also contains the RPM files. The suggestion is to prov...
8 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Submitted

Re-Allow Post-Deployment Updates to db cfg / dbm cfg / Registry (db2set) Settings Through the Db2uInstance CR to Support GitOps and ArgoCD Workflows

Problem Statement Starting with Db2 12.1.5, the Db2uInstance admission webhook enforces a restriction whereby dbConfig, dbmConfig, and registry (db2set) settings can only be specified during initial Db2uInstance creation. Subsequent updates to the...
19 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Container Submitted

Request for REST API Documentation Coverage and Consistency Improvements

Request we would like to raise the level of detail and documentation coverage of the REST APIs to be comparable to that of the Java SDK documentation, which is relatively comprehensive within the same API documentation set. Why useful The current ...
20 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Submitted

Create a db2cm maintenance mode for HADR + Pacemaker

Db2 v12.1.xHADR + PacemakerLinux Problem: Db2 PureScale has an easy way to put a host from the cluster in maintenance mode that is: db2cm -enter -maintenance Db2 HADR + Pacemaker has the : db2cm -DISABLE -instance <instance_name> -host <h...
21 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown Submitted

Provide published documentation that describes how DB2 can be configured to use Open Telemetry

Open Telemetry is a widely adopted open source standard. Where customers are mandated to use Open Telemetry, they require guidance from IBM to ensure they can configure it effectively. Customers are keen to use Open Telemetry to allow flexibility ...
29 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Simplify DB2REMOTE log archive path name

When configuring LOGARCHMETH1|2 for a DB2REMOTE Db2 always appends two forward slashes "//" to end of the path even though specifying the slashes isn't required. This makes it more difficult to automate Db2 configuration because while it's possibl...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Under review