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Provide a dedicated metric to monitor the exact physical/logical size of individual indexes separately

Problem Statement & Real-life Scenario: In large-scale enterprise environments (e.g., SAP on Db2 and etc), tables often have dozens of indexes. Currently, built-in routines such as ADMIN_GET_INDEX_INFO only return the aggregated size of ALL in...
4 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Exclude SELECT from DB2 Audit Policy

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } I recommend voting to exclude the SELECT option from the DB2 audit policy based on the following technical considerations...
9 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

Exclude SELECT from DB2 Audit Policy

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } I recommend voting to exclude the SELECT option from the DB2 audit policy based on the following technical considerations...
9 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Submitted

For IBMi SYSTOOLS.DELETE_OLD_SPOOLED_FILES, add number of spool files deleted when Preview => NO

Current implementation deletes spool files but user does not know how many. Would be helpful to return a result for this execution. Similar might be done for deleting old journal receivers.
10 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools Submitted

Support for Mutual TLS (mTLS) Authentication on DB2 LUW Server

Description: Currently, DB2 for Linux/Unix/Windows (LUW) does not support mutual TLS (mTLS) for connections between DB2 clients and the DB2 LUW server. mTLS is only available for DB2 on z/OS.This limitation prevents organizations from implementing...
15 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers Future consideration

Ability to backup a Db2 instance

WestJet will like to have the ability to backup a Db2 instance's settings so they can clone it to several other servers
25 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Needs more information

DB2 HADR with Pacemaker: use systemd to gracefully takeover to standby before server shutdown

Using DB2 HADR with Pacemaker. Before a shutdown/boot of the primary server in a cluster (for planned OS maintenance or otherwise), a takeover of the databases should be executed on the standby server. This avoids a forced takeover. We would like ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Not under consideration

Feature of TERRITORY Improvement Request for Db2 on IBM Cloud

When the service is deployed, the territory is automatically set to US, which prevents them from using the service as intended. Any workaround that would allow setting the territory to Japan is required by the end of April. Alternatively, if there...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud Submitted

Db2 should retransmit data to IBM Storage Protect, in case of tapedrive errors

Db2 should e.g. try to retransmit the failed part of I/O, when only a single stream of a multiple stream backup fails, rather than marking the complete backup as failed.(f.e with SQL2033N). AHA idea is related to Db2 Case TS021697999.
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Future consideration

Unable to identify 'Data Server Driver Package' software on Red Hat (.swidtag needed)

Background 'Data Server Driver Package' is software that IBM offers via Fix Central and advertises as standalone software in their documentation. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5.x?topic=overviews-data-server-clients The software/installer ins...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers Submitted