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Db2

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Improve precision for CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on windows

when asking for the CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on Unix systems, we have 6 decimal precisions for the timestamp value. yyyy-mm-dd HH.mm.ss.nnnnnn - TIMESTAMP(6) but for windows, current_Timestamp just provides a milisecond precision yyyy-mm-dd HH.mm.ss.nnn ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 2 Future consideration

User ID metrics Consistency across several monitor interfaces

User Id identification metrics are not consistent across different monitoring interfaces. Db2 offers different metrics to identify the end user. CLIENT_USERID SYSTEM_AUTH_ID SESSION_AUTH_ID The same 3 metrics should be available in ALL places wher...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

As Db2 system / instance administrator, I need to retrieve the list of active databases using SQL

Coming from snapshot monitoring, the goal is to use in-memory monitoring and SQL in the least intrusive way to monitor the health of a Db2 instance and its databases. Right now, this is done by connecting to a non-tenant dummy database and running...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

XML type support in Db2 stored procedure debugger

XML data type is not supported in Db2 stored procedure debugger in Data Studio or Visual Studio add-in. We are developing our support for SEPA and ISO 20022 projects using Db2 z/OS native stored procedures. They both heavily depend on XML. It woul...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

IBM should consider releasing Db2 database software as an RPM

We currently create our own RPMs from the database software downloaded from Passport Advantage. This is time consuming and can be eliminated by having IBM package and distribute their software as an RPM for easier consumption like other DBMS vendo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 2 Future consideration

Provide pre and post upgrade dbm and db checks of Db2 parameters and highlight any deltas

It is currently a best practice that we recommend customers do pre and post upgrade dbm and db checks manually. The request is that this should be performed automatically as part of the Db2 upgrade script itself. Comparing before and after parame...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

new aggregated WLM threshold for LOCKLIST at workload/service class level

We have MAXLOCK db-cfg parameter which can be used to avoid a single connection (UOW) to consume the LOCKLIST space. But this parameter some times it not enough. I have seen LOCK escalation cases happening (which locked system tables, causing huge...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Future consideration

schema-privilege for USAGE ON SEQUENCE

To GRANT USAGE ON SEQUENCE there is only the old method with db2 grant usage on sequence sq_test to role <rolename> But i want to use schema-privileges, but there is not the function GRANT USAGEIN ON SCHEMA MYSCHEMA TO ROLE <rolename> ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration

Db2 LUW support on Windows Server 2022

Please support Windows Server 2022 on v11.5 and vNext. Windows Server 2022 was released in August 2021 and we have consumers wanting to use the latest operating system. End of support for Windows Server 2019 is January 2024 but it takes time for u...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

Db2 LUW support on Ubuntu 22.04

Please support Ubuntu 22.04 on v11.5 and vNext. Ubuntu 22.04 was released in April 2022 and we have consumers wanting to use the latest operating system. End of support for Ubuntu 20.04 is April 2025 but it takes time for us to package, test and d...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration