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Db2

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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.
1 day 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...
5 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Container 1 Under review

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...
26 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 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...
13 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Enahncement to DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT setting

Regarding the use of DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT=ON. This env variable will defer memory commitment, asynchronously in the background, for faster completion of ACTIVATE DATABASE. This helps to improve the database activation for large memory systems w...
4 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

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 ...
5 months ago in Db2 1 Under review
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Reorg Utility Progress data is missing in db2 list utilities and db2 list utilities show detail command

The db2 list utilties and db2 list utilities show detail command will not display the Reorg utility progress. 1) The command will display the Runstats progress details for the table 2) The command will display the Load progress details for the tab...
over 5 years ago in Db2 72 Future consideration

Db2 should be able to run in OpenShift within the limits of the restricted-v2 SCC

As of today, Db2 requires certain privileged SCC capabilities for running in OpenShift as described in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/12.1?topic=security-manually-creating-scc-service-account-role-role-binding Basically the customer can choose be...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Container 0 Submitted

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 ...
7 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Remote storage and datalake tables for AIX

The feature is already available in Db2 for a while, but only supported in (Intel) Linux environments. IBM talks about the benefits of those features and related system architectures, but the feature is not available to many of our large enterpris...
5 months ago in Db2 1 Future consideration