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Bitwise operators bigger then 64 or 113 bits

We use the bitwise operators for a lot of things. Right now bitwise operators are limited to a 64 bits or 113 bits. We have a need to use bitwise operators at let's say 8192 bits; a number bigger than 113 bits.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Oracel "select any table" feature in DB2

Customer need a read only user to do the extract in the data warehouse project or to do the monitor. With the 'select any table' privilege , after customer create some new table,that user only have the read only privilege on those new tables.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to stop using of AOT and other db2 tables on the IDAA

When we STOP or start for UT ,spaces of tables that are loaded to IDAA or spaces that relate to AOT's, these spaces are still available for the IDAA. We can SELECT data from the IDAA for these tables and for AOT's' we can also update them. We need...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Display row stats ( rows_read, rows_written, tq_rows_sent, tq_rows_recv) for each sub-section in MON_GET_AGENT

Currently, there is no equivalent of getting row level information ( TQ_ROWS_SENT/RECV, Rows Read, Rows written ) for each agent running within a sub-section which was readily available in snap_get_subsection or db2 get snapshot for application ag...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

For Modify Utility, enhance to allow selecting SYSCOPY rows by TYPE (full, incremental) and DSN pattern (DBP.DB2.ICWKY*), Modify should also delete rows where there are no media.

Incrementals are only kept 14 days, Full IC are kept 30 days, DSN pattern DBP.DB2.ICWKY* are kept 30 days. Current Modify does not support deleting the SYSCOPY rows. All are kept 30 days.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Support of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for automated HADR(with TSA)

Customers are able to deploy a pair of virtual machines(VMs) from the Google Cloud Platform(GCP) and configure a Db2 HADR database pair between the two VMs. They can then furthermore configure HADR automation with TSA via the db2haicu utility. The...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Modify permissions on DB2/LUW installation directories

During installation and instance creation of DB2/LUW ESE (and AESE), the following directories are create as world writable (OTHER permissions of 777) without the sticky bit set: sqllib/db2dump/DIAG0000 sqllib/db2dump/events sqllib/tmp sqllib/uif ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Enable registering SSL connection information for databases cataloged in LDAP.

For databases enabled with SSL connectivity, it would be useful to be able to register the protocol and certificate storage information in the LDAP catalogs as well. Currently the db2dsdriver.cfg supports including this information as part of a da...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review

Shell scripts to perform command line operations

We are looking for shell scripts to perform operations such as Add databases to monitoring Update collection ID Update password for collection ID Above were already there in DSM.
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

WHERE/GROUP BY clasue on column alias

Would be very userfull to wite WHERE/GROUP BY clasue on column alias. Very usefull for developers who are using OLAP Functions or other operations on column.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration