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Installation & Upgrade

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add option to installFixPack command -f nojava

IBM ask to update java few weeks ago Then IBM ask us to apply a fixpack on our DB2 databases. The command installFixPack apply the DB2 fixpak and also install a new java version older than the one we installed few weeks ago. Could you modify...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Add possibility to specify uid/gid for db2instance owner in container

It would be beneficial to be able to specify uid/gid for db2instance in container. Example: DB2INSTANCE_UID (default ...) is to specify the uid of the Db2 instance owner DB2INSTANCE_GID (default ...) is to specify the gid of the Db2 instance owner...
7 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

db2diag installation for UNIX Db2 clients

If you are looking for connection errors of an UNIX Db2 client, you will find that db2diag is missing.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Provide checksums for Fixpacks

From a security perspective it would be very helpful to be able to validate that the code downloaded from FixCentral is correct and has not been tampered with (or corrupted during download). Please publish md5 or sha2 checksums for Fixpack downloa...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW: Db2 utility to back up and restore the permissions and ownership values of Db2 files/directories

Requesting Rproduct improvement for Db2 Linux, Unix and Windows. Problem description: This RFE solves a problem or deficiency within an IBM database product, Db2 Linux, Unix and Windows. The problem is that users (with authority) mistakenly change...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

allow LDAP based db2 instance user for PureScale instance creation

Right now instance creation and maintainance in PureScale (db2icrt/db2iupdt) requires that the db2 instance user is local, i.e. has an entry in local /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. This expose a huge problem for LDAP based environments like ours whe...
12 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Purescale with Secure Linux Boot on RHEL enabled: should ship already signed IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) kernel modules

Background: Right now instance creation with DB2 PureScale 11.5 (FP8) fails when it comes to the GPFS part if you have Secure Linux Boot in Red Hat Linux enabled. This issue is documented in GPFS manuals https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/STXKQY/gpfsclus...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

DB2 instance to be greater than 8 characters

No description provided
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Add a way to pre-encrypt db2 user password before adding it in response file to do db2 silent install.

We are OEM customer to provider our user Db2+Cognos installation, we're using db2 silent install with a response file, for now, there is no way (no tools, no command) to encrypt a plain db2 user password so that we can add this encrypted password ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade / Security 0 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server Runtime Client on Mac OS?

Given the increase in Mac users, having the DB2 client available on the Mac would be prudent.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration