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Update the DB2 LUW Client Drivers to support Windows Server Core docker images

The IBM DB2 client driver package does not work on window server core images. See the included Dockerfiles. Dockerfile-servercore uses the aspnet 4.8 base image which is based on windowsservercore-ltsc2022 docker image https://hub.docker.com/r/mic...
11 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Capture FODC when the db2 watchdog not able to start the daemons that died

At present when the db2passwd daemon gets terminated db2 watchdog is supposed to re-instantiate the process. But when its not able to start it for some reason we expect watchdog or the engine by itself should create an FODC and collect all the nec...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Submitted

TS016588496: MAX_LOG setting for User vs System Activities, 2003 (MQRC_BACKED_OUT)

As documented in PMR TS016588496, a QRep configuration may fail to apply a transaction to a target system due to exceeding the MQ Log configuration. At the DB layer, the configuration setting MAX_LOG manages how large a transaction may be in terms...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Replication 0 Future consideration

Change the mapping of a timestamp with timezone from varchar to a Db2 timezone for a Postgres database source

Currently the timestamp with timezone in a Postgres source database is mapped to a varchar and that limits how you can query and manage it. Other data sources map this data type to a timestamp allowing for normal processing using the various time ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Submitted

RPM Package for IBM DB2 Software Installation

Summary: Request for IBM to provide an RPM package for the installation of IBM DB2 software to facilitate easier deployment, management, and integration on RHEL. Description: IBM DB2 widely used database management system in our company. To improv...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

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...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Submitted

DB2 database backup on Google cloud storage

We can utilize Google cloud storage directly for the database backups.
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 1 Submitted

DB2 LUW CSB Automatic Online installation

Hi Team, Currently IBM publishes their new CSB for db2 LUW databases on regular basis. But there is no feature in db2 LUW to get it installed automatically. My proposal here is to enable db2 LUW to have some feature which will allow CSB Automatic ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Db2 Connect Client steering thread recycle

Enhance Db2 Connect client for distributed workload. problem statement: Today Db2 DDF will close the connection to recycle the thread. This happens conditional (recycle-time limit, after Commit, no open cursors, other conditions). The client will ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Include Prefetch wait time Metrics in monreport.dbsummary() stored procedure

Prefetch wait time numbers are a bit similar to FCM in the sense that they can be really high even in a normal system. Prefetch wait time doesn’t start until an agent attempts to read a page that has already been queued for prefetch – then the clo...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Submitted