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Db2

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DB2 LUW Audit does not capture failed access attempts on restricted tables

Many customers have restricted tables where very few select users will have read/write access. These tables need to be monitored through various means to report all access attempts on the tables. DB2 audit is able to capture only the successful ac...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 2 Future consideration

Expanding limit of Maximum number of columns in a table - Db2

Hi, In Db2, currently we have the limit of 1012 as maximum number of columns in a table, We would request you to exapand this limit. thank you! Regards, Sankar
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration

Add FETCH FIRST n ROWS ONLY (FFRO) to ARRAY_AGG function

This would work along the same lines as ORDER BY in the ARRAY_AGG and will restrict the number of array elements. I believe this feature would be a feature in demand as more DB2users utilize DB2 arrays. I had to resort to a workaround of using a s...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 4 Functionality already exists

Online SSL certificate renewal for Encryption at rest

SSL_KMIP_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_LABEL change requires instance restart. Can we do this parameter as dynamic online update parameter without any outage to db2 instance.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0

I'd like you to consider to add new stored procedure ADMIN_TASK_CANCEL ( like in the DB2 z/OS version https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=db2-admin-task-cancel) in the next fix/mod/main version of DB2?

Because now I can't stop the running procedure scheduled via ATS unless I stop the instance manager.
12 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Submitted

import MON_GET_ROUTINE_DETAILS

Whereas having the MON_GET_ROUTINE data is nice, there are times where you need to get the detail data for the various time slices to truly understand the issue on a system. The biggest issue is seeind the data summarized at the database level in ...
12 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

db_backup multi path option

In netezza we have ability to backup with multiple paths and need same functionality on DB2 warehouse.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release

Change the backup name from ONLINE to semi-ONLINE as the onlines backups are not supported. Please see TS014902228

Online backup has many issues for db2 (TS014902228)
12 months ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Protect against DOS when user has password expired

Hi team, recently we had open a support case TS004670019 on https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002TrWNRAA3/1222wd-db2-taking-too-long-to-login We had a situation with an automatic process that got it's password expired and begun failing t...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Need the ability to "Import" or "Load" data from CSV file

We have the ability to Export to CSV file, we need the ability to Import from CSV. To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to do this.
12 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration