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Db2

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Tenant level recoverability : The ability to take backups and restore at the tenant level

If Namespace Separation is going to be used for lots of test/dev databases, people would need to be able to do backup/restore of their own tenants.
1 day ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Submitted

Ability to flush or clean up catalog cache

Larger catalog-related changes, like revoking privileges from many users at the same time, are also updating the catalog cache. The cache may hold invalidated or "orphaned" entries. Those entries are only removed in an asynchronous fashion. Until ...
18 days ago in Db2 / Serviceability 1 Under review

Integrated Cluster solution on AIX: Move from TSA to PowerHA

DB2 has moved from TSA (Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms) to Pacemaker as integrated clustering solution on Linux. We use TSA in production, and we think this is a wise move, as TSA is not robust and manageable enough for a dependable s...
25 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 5 Submitted

Add a "CREATE TENANT LIKE" functionality

The new Db2 release 12.1 provides the namespace isolation via tenant feature. Default is the SYSTEM tenant. For ease of use and the ability to spin up seperate tenants fast, a statement like "CREATE TENANT <new tenant name> LIKE <existin...
13 days ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Under review

Make SET TENANT available in connect procedure

The new Db2 release 12.1 provides the namespace isolation via tenant feature. Default is the SYSTEM tenant. The tenant feature is ideal to replace small personal databases for developers where many may have the same sets of tables and also in the ...
13 days ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Under review

DB2 12.1 support for rhel8

As the vendor for both database and RHEL OS, I would really expect the customary support for RHEL8 and RHEL9 for db2 LUW 12.1. This is a huge inconvenience for those of us not on 11.5.9. If we need to upgrade we need to go across all of our server...
3 days ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Statements Event Monitor should include UOW (transaction commit) to give similar capability as a db2 z/os trace

When trying to diagnose an online transaction problem, I could not find a way of tracing the transaction with an Event Monitor to include the implicit commits of the XA Transaction (XA-PREPARE, XA-END). I raised ticket a ticket with IBM (mentioned...
5 days ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Under review

Option to avoid sampling for the distribution statistics without creating an index

Because of a misleading distribution statistic the Db2 optimizer can in some situations choose a very bad execution plan.The reason for this is, that Db2 internally samples data to faster create his distribution statistics. To create an index to a...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Submitted
300 VOTE

Apple Silicon / M1 / M2 / M3 Support for IBM ODBC/CLI Driver

As a developer on macOS with an Apple Silicon chip, I want to use the IBM ODBC/CLI Driver (downloadable from here) natively. Emulating is possible but since I am using this driver via Python, all my other Python code now needs to run emulated as w...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 68

Possibility to check object state on HADR standby without ROS

Unfortunatelly some people on our HADR systems do deployments for which we are forced to set BLOCKNONLOGGED off (it's normally on on all systems). This may cause (depending on what they do) that objects on HADR standby become "destroyed" because t...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration