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Db2

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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 ...
2 months ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

Developing and support for the c7i instance type in DB2 Purescale solution on AWS

The maximum number of EBS volumes (up to 30) that can be attached to current c6i instances that is supported with DB2 Purescale on AWS. The new c7i instance type offers support for up to 128 EBS volumes, which aligns perfectly for enhanced storage...
4 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Future consideration

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...
4 months ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

db2u-operator should be able to restore a DB to a point in time

Currently db2u restores a database and rollforwards it to end of logs per default. The point in time restore option is an essential feature in every modern DB, and in OpenShift-environments even more so since logging in into the db2-container shou...
4 months ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Supporting alerts in pacemaker configuration to enable a post-failover trigger (e.g. to call any shell script)

Customer has HADR and Pacemaker implemented, their Backup&Recovery solution is CommVault.Log Archiving and Backup is shared by using a Virtual Client Name.But requirement from CommVault after a HADR takeover is to inform CommVault server about...
5 months ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Improve SQL0293N when creating database on 4K sector size disk

On CREATE DATABASE db2 reports a very generic error message SQL0293N when there is a write access to a 4K sector size disk. Instead should do a check when creating containers e.g. read 512 bytes, if this does not work, read 4K block. If 4K block c...
7 months ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

DB2 database backup on Google cloud storage

We can utilize Google cloud storage directly for the database backups.
7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 1 Future consideration

Db2 LUW SQL Syntax Check

It would be good if Db2 LUW had a SQL, SQL/PL syntax check engine. You can check queries for correct syntax by using the explain facility, but this doesn't work with DDL statements, functions and stored procedures. An SQL syntax check engine would...
7 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Control loadbalancing type of db2u-c service in Kubernetes

DB2 only offers nodePort for external exposure. However it would be natural to be able to control the loadbalcing type (i.e. ClusterIP by default, but allow for LoadBalancer). Additionally it would be favourable to place annotations on the service...
7 months ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Allow inplace reorgs cleanup overflows on partitioned tables with global indexes

We are seeing more OLTP customers moving from Db2 z/OS who require the ability to cleanup overflows through reorg on their partitioned tables which have been defined with global indexes.
9 months ago in Db2 0 Future consideration