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Use package collection other than NULLID for CLP and Db2 Utilities

Db2/zOS colleagues want to get rid of lock issues with rebind of packages in schema NULLID, thus the decided to have Db2/zOS release specific package collections to provide actual and rebound packages for every Db2 release to the distributed (Db2/...
over 4 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

I would like to have Db2 11.5.5.1 supported in a Power10 environment on AIX Ver. 7.2 TL5 SP2.

In order to implement Power10, the customer plans to migrate their current AIX 7.2 TL5 SP2 environment to the new Power10 environment. However, their current version of Db2, version 11.5.5.1, is not supported, so they would like to have it support...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Parameter 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' in Db2 LUW similar to Db2 z/OS

in Db2 z/OS there is a 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' parameter. We will need a similar parameter for Db2 LUW. Background: Our datawarehouse application 'IDH' uses many Bi-Temporal tables. An update of any row in the source system will lead to the logical t...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Restore of online backup taken with older Db2 version

Current product limitation don't allow to restore an online database backup that were taken with a older Db2 level than the on of the Db2 instance . Our production environement must be available on a 24x7 basis and this limitation is a serious lim...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Allow offline backup to automatically force all Allow offline utilities such as backup, restore, rollforward to auconnections

Modern enterprise applications are often using connection pooling for database access. Connection pools are usually monitored by application servers, and dead connections are reestablished with minimal delays..For offline backup operations, this l...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Customized Refresh Interval for "Databases" page like DMS did.

Hello. DMC doens't provide a Customized Refresh Interval for "Databases" page like DSM did. According to Case TS010513163, the refresh interval is 5 minutes and can't be changed. Neither the Rest APIs can change that behavior. I would request a bu...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review

STMM Monitoring

With the memory statistics similar to the ‘db2pd -dbptnmem’ output within the STMM logs, it would be possible to get memory usage report over time from Db2 perspective without any permanent monitoring tool (as long as STMM is used/active). It woul...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Backup on HADR Standby

Backup consume resources in primary. If we offload backup in Standby then Primary can be easily served for application use alone . Currently we were able to take backup only in primary and all workloads along with Backup utilise CPU resources .If ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Generating monitor report by schema name in Data Management Console

When creating monitor reports in DMC, the granularity for reports is the whole database, e.g. reports can be generated only at the database level. If there are several schemas in the same database, the abbility to generate reports at the schema le...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review

DB2 LUW version of z/OS Utility Estimator

reference to: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/soo-kim/2025/02/27/introducing-new-db2-utility-reorg-estimation-featu We would like a DB2 LUW version of the z/OS Utility Estimator to help estimate the duration of planned offline table...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted