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On the Database Summary Page need a global period choice so that all the sub topics like availability, responsiveness etc can give the summary for the selected period

On the Database Summary Page need a global period choice so that all the sub topics like availability, responsiveness etc can give the summary for the selected period. - This has been discussed with Jason Sizto.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Planned for future release

Redirected Restore on STANDBY for STOGROUP expansion

Case number: TS008472518 Our database was 42TB and the file system were 45TB across 12 file systems. I wanted to expance the total storage to TB by adding 12 additional file systems. I took a backup and did a re-directed restore on standby with 24...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

External Table support for Db2 running on Windows

Db2 running under Linux allows currently to use external tables. For testing, production use, migration and completeness those feature should also be available for the Windows (and other OS) platform. Especially as this is a potential replacement ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Enable EXPORT to use a Storage Access Alias

Enabling EXPORT to use a Storage Access Alias will be very useful for DBA's using both on Prem and Cloud environments. It can only be used by LOAD/INGEST/BACKUP/RESTORE at the moment. Adding the capability to store data on object storage in the cl...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Create a new authentication plugin for handling OAuth/OpenID protocol

The customer currently uses Kerberos but indents to move to OAuth/OpenID after upgrading from db2 V11.1 to V11.5 or V12
12 months ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration

What part of Db2 still requires 32-bit support?

While talking with Keri Romanufa at IDUG Philadelphia I was asked to enter this as an RFE to be checked on.During a Db2 LUW installation for pureScale on a 64-bit machine, which will have only(!) 64-bit executables, a lot of 32-bit libraries are r...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Provide better hang information

In the case of a hang, we only have the material for root-cause analysis if we were able to collect db2fodc information before the system became fully unusable. A small moving window of such information written out to disk on a regular basis would...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Db2 LUW support on Alma 8

Request is to certify Db2 LUW on Alma Linux 8 as the replacement for CentOS. Research indicates: RedHat announced that they are replacing Centos 7 and 8 with Alma Linux. There will not be a Centos 9. RedHat announced that they are replacing Centos...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Extension to Temporal (TimeTravel) SQL

Avoid error SQL20524 RC 3 which is returned once you try specifying a column name instead of a explicit value like in following SQL:SELECT * FROM FACT INNER JOIN TA_DIM_BITEMP FOR BUSINESS_TIME AS OF colts ON fact.id = TA_DIM_BITEMP.id Just to cla...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Enable federation between db2 luw to SQLMI (AZURE)

Some of our Sybase data sources moved to SQLMI (AZURE) when we setup federation from db2luw to SQLMI (similar to sql server) its not working
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration