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Implement vault access for storing passwords (instead of storing them in config files)

IBM provides Db2 LDAP plug-in modules capabilities as e. g. described here for Db2 v12.1: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/12.1.x?topic=support-configuring-ldap-plug-in-modules There are two parameters (keys) listed, namely SSL_PW and SEARCH_PW. Th...
19 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Future consideration

TEMPORAL TABLES & LBAC

We use system temporal tables (history) for business data. This data will be maintained be different customers. Each customer should just maintain and see his data and not the data of other customers. But we are allowed to see all the data from al...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Future consideration

Apply COS Object lock with a retention period and legal hold for Db2 database backups and log archival.

•As part of the backup, the object(S) created in COS should get an object lock with retention period assigned. •This is used to prevent the backup image from being deleted for that period. Once the object lock expires, the backup image will be del...
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 1 Future consideration

COS Allow tagging for backup and log files

COS objects can be tagged at creation e.g. to specify the time the COS object how long the object should be kept.
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 2 Future consideration

Automatic Table Partition Creation and Purging Based on Date Expressions

I propose the addition of a native feature in Db2 LUW for automatic table partition management based on a date or timestamp column. Specifically: Automatic Partition Creation: Allow users to define partitioning expressions (e.g., daily, monthly, y...
9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Future consideration

NCOS support for GCP

None of the Google Cloud's object storage is supported for customers to move cold data onto a partitioned table. That makes hosting a db2warehouse on Google Cloud very expensive and cost prohibitive. Need native support for GCP
10 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Future consideration

ALSM full mirror log support

Today, ALSM only extract once from primary log path. If mirror log path gets used, ALSM does not extract on mirror log path.
10 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

ALSM for pureScale

ALSM (advanced log space management) is a nice feature to workaround long living transaction e.g. LOAD which write low volume of log records.
10 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Future consideration

Option to exclude temporary tablespaces from Db2 Snapshot Backup

It would be advantageous, if we could exclude temporary tablespaces from the Db2 Snapshot Backup (using IBM Storage Protect Snapshot)Because the temporary tablespaces have to be included its corresponding filesystems need to have “Mirror write con...
12 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Future consideration

Enhancement for LSN mismatch at startup

Database when activated does basic sanity testing and file structural integrity testing so the time taken to bring up the database is kept to a minimum. Currently, it cannot possibly check all the objects for sequence number mismatch. This is true...
12 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Future consideration