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Db2

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Request is to make WLM Effective only on primary, on STANDBY it should not be in effect

Why is it useful? It helps us restrict the access to users who has readonly access on standbys to accidentlally connect to primary and run some rogue commands. who would benefit from it? We as DBAs, This gives us confidence on how we can use the r...
7 months ago in Db2 / Workload Management 2 Submitted

Build a mechanism to validate Database compliance as per Nestle Standards by using DMC (Data Management Console) tool.

Why is it useful? DMC tool will help to interconnect all DB2 Server's at single point which we can call as central/master server and help to monitor the Database Compliance and server resource's utilization. Who would benefit from it? Database tea...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

DMC for P10 systems (pLinux)

Provide ability to administer, monitor, manage and optimize the performance of IBM Db2 on the P10 systems.
9 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Planned for future release

There is no method to quickly get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image

It is not possible to get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image without first restoring the image or by using 'db2ckbkp -l' but it is also too long as it has to read the entire backup image (this can be long if the image is stored on TSM /...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Performance enhancement for admintabinfo

For example, the customer wants to get the name list for tables which are in load pending status, he may issue a SQL statement "select tabschema,tabname from sysibmadm.admintabinfo where load_status='PENDING'", the statement will execute for a ver...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Future consideration

Allow REORG INPLACE and modify REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS on ITC tables

Beginning Db2 v10.5, REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS on ITC tables also implicitly performs sparse extent consolidation before freeing empty extents ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/10.5?topic=enhancements-reorganization-make-table-maintenance-easier ). Ho...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

RPM Package for IBM DB2 Software Installation

Summary: Request for IBM to provide an RPM package for the installation of IBM DB2 software to facilitate easier deployment, management, and integration on RHEL. Description: IBM DB2 widely used database management system in our company. To improv...
4 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Make Db2 Connect ready for the future (which is already here)

Hi IBM Community, hi IBM Support, as part of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux version change, at the moment we have to set up many new server systems for the application software we support.Our application software relies heavily on DB2 and so the IBM D...
9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Db2 client authentication with certificates like SSH (public/private) keys

Provide the possibility to authenticate with public/private certificates for the current client user like SSH does
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 3 Not under consideration

Online BAR from pureScale to non-purescale

There are many cases that a database on the purescale cluster is needed to move on non-purescale instance. for example,backup, development or DR system . However, oracle does support this.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / pureScale 0 Future consideration