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Db2

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DMC add ability to switch from AM/PM to 24h representation globally in DMC.

Please add 24h time representation to DMC!!! The Graphs produced by DMC are very beautiful yet hard to read with a time line of AM/PM.
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Metrics Filter

Hi - While using DMC we noticed that its very much resource intensive since it monitor a lot of different metrics in database. There should be an option where we can use it for different monitoring levels like basic, avg or in-depth depends upon d...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration

TIMESTAMP with TIMEZONE

Competitive databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQL Server along with others have data type TIMESTAMP with TIME ZONE but LUW does not. Our own DB2 on z/OS starting version V11.0 has TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 2 Future consideration

Stop requiring Db2 to be run in a --privileged container

Using the ibmcom_db2 docker image, even when adding a license to it, or installing licensed Db2 to a container based on a supported O/S requires running in a docker container with the --privileged switch. This is not a good practice and cannot be ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Add Federation support for Apache Cassandra

Officially support and optimize performance from Federation (Db2 Linux/Unix/Windows) server to Apache Cassandra databases. We need to support as many data sources as possible as the move towards non-homogeneous data ingestion continues.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

Externel table support for: parquet, orc (big data formats)

Currently a DB2 external table support file formats like: CSV nad TXT; and there is also support for external cloud locations like S3, COS, Azure. The option to load data directly from a cloud data lake in hadoop file formats like: parquet, orc, a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / NoSQL 1 Future consideration

Add a new security role to read the logs

Add a new security privileges to allow and restrict the log reads and history file.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration

Lift the restriction for max 8 charaters in database name

The restriction of a maximum of 8 characters in a database name should be lifted to something more adequate for todays devops pipelines, say 32, 64 or even 128 chars. There is a need to give databases a more descriptive name than what is possible ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

VARCHAR_FORMAT REORG

Please add function VARCHAR_FORMAT in the WHEN statement of a REORG.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Adaption for Setup on Openshift (incl. Helm Chart)

IBM already publishes the DB2 DMC as docker file for hosting with docker. We wrote a simple deployment script for installing the image on Openshift. Currently we experience some problems there and debugging is not easy in this setup. So for easier...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

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