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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover

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Encrypted backup information in DB_HISTORY table

Currently there is no information on backup file is encrypted or not in DB_HISTORY table. Would like to see column indicating db backup entry is of encrypted db and backup file is indeed encrypted.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Delivered

Power9 zlib accelerator for backup and log file compression

Db2 supports NX842 accelerator on AIX. This has some limitation like restoring of such an backup image is only possible on AIX and cannot be combined with AME and AMS and also requires a license key to enable it.Compression and decompression in so...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Delivered

db2adutl performance

When we are deleting logs in TSM every week, we encounter very poor performance for deleting > 1000 logs for each DB2 partition. There are 131 DB2 partitions. Deleting the same amount of logs with dsmc del . . . . . works much faster. We assume...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Delivered

Upload db2 load copy images with db2adutl from filesystem to tsm

Currently using db2adutl only db2 database or tablespace backup images and log files can be moved from a filesystem to TSM using db2adutl. Load copy images cannot be moved using db2adutl. Example: $ db2adutl upload images /loadcopy/DBTEST.4.db2ins...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Delivered

Db2diag Diagnosis of lower LEVEL

Output was Db2diag. Log, and an error is issued if each time that you need to be investigated, but For the user no impact, no corresponding named because it might be required to the operational cost."PMR: 04802, 67E, 760" than the timing and condi...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Delivered