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Db2

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DB2 Pacemaker upgrade break cluster when Red Hat Satellite is not accessible

Hello, My idea is to add some check if Red Hat satellite is visible into db2installPCMK because if it's not, update will break cluster and DB2 will be unusable until visibility is fixed and db2installPCMK is executed again. As workaround you shoul...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Trigger support on nickname

I tried to implement a trigger to update nicknames but received the following error. Without this function, the following design is not possible, I have to put the reporting and online schema into 1 database if I want to use triggers for synchroni...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Let Physical Detach and Attach Operations on the same table run at the same time

Today there is no timeout on Detach Physical Phase and Attach alter cannot run on the same table at the same time as Detach alter. Some detach alters are taking over 20 hours to finish placing daily partitions at risk of not being created. Also th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Red Hat SSO need to support Db2

Red Hat SSO does not support Db2 according to documentation https://access.redhat.com/articles/2342861 Customers who are using Db2 would like to be able to use it for Red Hat SSO. Maintaining additional databases add complexity and cost.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Encrypted column support being deprecated, what else is available?

With DB2 LUW 11.1 the encrypt and decrypt, decrypt_char, decrypt_bin, etc functions are being deprecated. We already have all of the data encrypted on the disk with the disk subsystem so using an encrypted database does me no good. I need to be ab...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Limit query for DMC Storage panel to active tables

Limit query scope for storage panel to active tables. Query on a peoplesoft DB takes 53 min whereas limiting scope to active tables (MON_GET_TABLE), it takes < 5 min. On Peoplesoft DB, we have about 65K tables when only 7K are used.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration

Make DB2 maintainance easier to do and to monitor

- Add an API entry to monitor need for reorg, last regorgs done, maintainance windows etc.- Add a panel to simply monitor DB2 maintance health (information could come from the before mentionnend API)
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Improve performance of retrieving large result sets

Performance of Db2 client/server communications in a network environment needs to be significantly increased in cases where large amount of data (100s of MB or more) are being moved between Db2 server and remote client. This needs to be provided n...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Error message improvement

We request na addition to the error messages for this specific scenario: While converting non-UTS tablespaces to UTS using SECQTY 0 the opperation returned only the message DSNI014I reason code 00C90101, no message indicating space shortage in tab...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Future consideration

refresh fedration cache withouht the need to bounce instance once port number is changed from x to y

We have fedration defined from db2 to db2 v1 11 servers. once we update the port number of the fedration server we started getting errors like below SQL30080N A communication error "111" occurred sending or receiving data from the remote database....
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration