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Db2

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DB2 community edition for Ubuntu - Pop!_OS distribution.

I have Linux on my computers and have used Ubuntu 22 and 24, I have had no problem running DB2 community edition 12.1 . But I converted to Ubuntu - Pop!_OS distribution, and the DB2 said it did not recognize my linux distribution. Please make it w...
about 7 hours ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

DB2 LUW: Add GnuCOBOL to supported compilers under Linux and Windows

Users of DB2 LUW regularly need to run their COBOL on LUW as well. DB2 LUW offers thje necessary precompiler for EXEC SQL to provide that. Those users previously had to use Micro Focus (now called Rocket COBOL), but have a working alternative in G...
about 9 hours ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Submitted

Ability to start/stop Db2 listener without instance restart

During unplanned or planned maintenance work on the database, we need to have the option to quickly block users from connecting remotely on the database. Especially we need to prevent users from implicitly activating the database. Our current work...
about 15 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Data transfer between different database schema

Referring to the IBM - TS019130593 - Rational Licensing - 9362997; Database should have the functionality to transfer data between schemas and allow creating new schemas which can be pointed to the IBM ART tool instead of sticking to one ARTDATA.....
3 days ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

DB2 LUW Compatibility for Rocky Linux Operating System

Rocky Linux has proven to be a reliable and stable Linux operating system, supported by most database (RDBMS and NoSQL) software vendors for running database services. Aligning with this operating environment would be cost-effective and ensure a r...
29 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 3 Not under consideration

Enable log shipping for db2diag.log. Feature is already available for db2audit log

Customers embracing db2u would like to have near real time update to db2diag log as part of data their data observability solutions like elastic and splunk
about 1 month ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Restore a table from a backup (full Online) on Netbackup

Customer would like to restore a table from backup. Currently they've to restore tablespace or backup and then export/import the table.
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

DB2 Database Server/Container for arm64 linux

Currently the db2 database provided by the community edition only supports the following operating systems/architectures:* Microsoft Windows (x64)* Linux (x64)* Linux (IBM Z)* Linux (Power PC)* IBM AIX This means that running the database on any a...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 Container 1 Under review

Offset for entity framework

I’m currently using Entity Framework to fetch data from DB2. Due to limitations in how paging works, I’ve had to enable UseRowNumberForPaging in the connection string, otherwise the Skip() functionality doesn’t generate valid SQL for DB2. Without ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Ability to perform create indexes on a table in parallel

Typically we need to (re-)create multiple indexe’s on a table. Right now this process has to be performed sequentially - index after index - which can take a very considerable time. We would like to see a feature to able to CREATE multiple INDEXes...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted