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Db2

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 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

Sticky selection for "Items per Page" viewing in Data Management Console

When I choose the number of ITEMS PER PAGE to display for DB monitoring or in the Notification Center, the value is not maintained from session to session. It would be great to allow users to choose the values to display, or to choose which value ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Features missing in DMC

1) We are not able to get the Display of DB Size for each database. Can you please help to get this enabled in DMC. 2) We are not having option to check the Backup status for each DB in DMC . Please help to get this enabled in DMC. 3) We would lik...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Not under consideration