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Db2

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DB2/PureScale Support for RoCE EC30 Adapers Under DB2/PureScale V11 + AIX 7.2

Provide support for the DB2/Purescale V11 + AIX 7.2 configuration with the RoCE EC30 (no IP support) adapters. We have 3 clusters using a total of 24 of these RoCE EC30 adapters. This configuration is running in our QA cluster. DB2/PureScale V11 s...
about 5 years ago in Db2 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...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Add support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 with Db2 11.1

Our Linux team has already moved all our Linux platforms, with the exception of Db2 platforms, from SLES version 12 to 15. As there is no actual Db2 version that supports SLES 15, the concerned platforms cannot be upgraded.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Long term metrics for identifying trends

The ability to look at average cpu, max(database size), max connections collected at the daily interval (or online day verses off line day). Allows for easy identification of change whether business driven or application deployment driven. Typical...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Monitor to check for last successful db2 backup.

Monitor to check for last successful db2 backup. Useful to ensure availability. Simply checks for last successful backup with the threshold being number of days since last successful backup
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Not under consideration

XML Schema 1.1

DB2 PureXML does not support XML Schema Version 1.1, although it would be very useful. XML Schema Version 1.1 goes far to correct numerous inadequacies in XML Schema Version 1.0 for extensibility of data models in order to meet future needs.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

STANDBY_RECV_REPLAY_GAP to be monitored in DMC which is not available at present

We have Standby log receiving enabled for 30 GB. But we are looking for additional parameter as STANDBY_RECV_REPLAY_GAP which is not getting monitored in DMC . Kindly help to get it enabled.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Functionality already exists

Add support to update "Last Login Time" of Linux OS for Db2 LUW

Db2 LUW on Linux OS only use auth and password module of PAM to validate and change password, but it didn't record the "Last Login Time" for the users on the Linux OS, so we don't know if the users are actually using the Db2 for data query. And th...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Future consideration

db2expln output with XML format.

The db2expln utility provides a plain text file only. Sometimes, OPTPROFILE can be added to tune some terrible SQL. The OPTPROFILE is XML format, but many users is not used to it. If XML format is supported as an option of db2expln then it would b...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Ease use of ROS in high volume transaction system utilizing DGTT on Primary db

Trying to utilize ROS to offload reports and heavy queries from Primary Database. Hence we should be able to scale the workload on the Primary, once these are moved away form here. But does not work out for us. Queries are getting forced off often...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Is a defect