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Db2

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Do not truncate trailing blanks in columnar Group By

BLU columnar engine does not carry trailing blanks in varchar columns during GROUP BY processing. It does not bring non-normalized variant through the grouping operation
over 4 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

DB2 RCAC Masking usage enhancement

This is urgent request to enhance RCAC masking rule. We are using it on several systems but due to below limitation or bug we have to use static hardcoded values in the masking rule, which is lot of manual process and impose security risk. This fe...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Enable browsing of "local" XML data

In ADMIN Tool it is possible to browse XML-data from distributed Db2 via Option: DD - Distributed DB2 systems This works, because DRDA protocol does a conversion for data that is not compatible to the local CCSID. When trying this on a local Syste...
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Let a change of a SYS*_GROUP in the dbm cfg be reflected in the db2audit secmaint.del-file next to/instead of in db2diag.log

For security monitoring purposes every 30 minutes our production db2audit-files are archived, extracted and uploaded to a special security server for analysis purposes. However very important information is missing: when changing a SYS*_GROUP, the...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Event monitor creation, write to table option should allow to specify a tabkespace into which ALL the new tables should be created in

Create event monitor write to table option will create new tables.All the new tables are defined in a tablespace which db2 chooses. I want an option to specify a tablesapce name, in which ALL the new tables should get created in.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Non-recoverable tables list after rollforward

Retrieving list of non-recoverable tables (Tables which undergone load with non recoverable option or not logged operations) from catalog views
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

DB2oC UI logon acceptance user name size greater than 20 characters

DB2oC User Interface is a smart way to access administration roles in a DB2oC instances. DB2oC UI has a limit of 20 (twenty) characters to user name size. In my company, for security purposes, we priorize logon proccess that uses IBMCloud App-ID s...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Add support for XML and LOB in the ingest utility

Add support for XML and LOB in the ingest utility
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

db2stop re-confirmation command option

This is an enhancement request to incorporate a reconfirmation message before stopping a Db2 instance in standalone, HADR or in pureScale environments. The reason for the ask is to avoid DBA's or users typing db2stop instead of db2top by mistake. ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Allow data type ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP in column-organized tables

We need the ability to define columns with data type ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP in our tables so that we can track when the last change was made. Currently we use normal row based tables which allow this but we want to migrate to column based tables. Wh...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration / Data Types 0 Not under consideration