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To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...
about 22 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

Rajiv Kumar

We have 4 appliance in our environment and all these 4 appliance has same hostname inside container. In appliance DB2 backup is configured through EMC Networker so whenever we are taking backup of DB2. Backup is getting initiated with same hostnam...
1 day ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

Kerberos authentication - ODBC driver - allow krb5.ini integration similar to JDBC driver for untrusted domains

Currently, JDBC driver allows an untrusted domain to connect to a target domain but providing configuration in a krb5.ini/krb5.conf file as to what the accessible kdc server is and the domain associated to that server. With an ODBC driver, there i...
12 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE and db2look result in partition table column range definitions padding extra blank spaces when using config STRING_UNITS = CODEUNITS32

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE and db2look need to be updated to properly support STRING_UNITS = CODEUNITS32. When running ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE on a partitioned table with the 'MOVE' option, or when running db2look, in an environment with the db cfg setting for STR...
15 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

remove restriction "rwx" for others from "/tmp" or location configured by DB2TMPDIR variable

To extra secure the server where DB2 software is installed it is preferred to create directories which don't have write and executable rights for others. On this way it prevents an ordinary user to create scripts on its own and execute them. In th...
20 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Db2 Encryption at Rest breaks backup deduplication

For the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Encryption at Rest is mandatory for many databases. Since we have turned on Encryption at Rest, data deduplication during backups is not working anymore. We always have to save the full 15+ TB...
22 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

IP restrictions for public administrative access (dedicated VPC)

Restricting the devices that can connect from public environments by IP address is a requirement of the customer's security policy and is requested by Japanese customers.This function was implemented in Gen2, but not in Gen3, and this has been poi...
22 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 0 Submitted

Automatic Table Partition Creation and Purging Based on Date Expressions

I propose the addition of a native feature in Db2 LUW for automatic table partition management based on a date or timestamp column. Specifically: Automatic Partition Creation: Allow users to define partitioning expressions (e.g., daily, monthly, y...
25 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

DB2 Purescale with Secure Linux Boot on RHEL enabled: should ship already signed IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) kernel modules

Customer needs that Secure boot is enabled and it is not possible in any Purescale Version. We opened case TS018965073 for this issue and said that to be enabled Secureboot means to sign GPFS packages and involve several support teams
26 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Copy-on-Write for Namespace Separation/Tenants

With the new namespace separation feature in 12.1, you could end up with a lot of duplicate data. If tenants could be created in a copy-on-write or delta aspect it would allow for each tenant to only consume space for the delta, instead of a full ...
26 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

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