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Db2

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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

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

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

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

Add a db2pd option to monitor rollbacks

Add the abiity to monitor rollbacks via db2pd
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Email notification for password expiration

The current version of Db2 Warehouse on Cloud supports the enforcement of password policies and setting a duration of password validity before expiration, however there is no option to send email notifications to users to warn them that their pass...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Not under consideration

Add a way to pre-encrypt db2 user password before adding it in response file to do db2 silent install.

We are OEM customer to provider our user Db2+Cognos installation, we're using db2 silent install with a response file, for now, there is no way (no tools, no command) to encrypt a plain db2 user password so that we can add this encrypted password ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade / Security 0 Not under consideration

Purescale performance with the MTU 1500 vs 9000 threshold on newer adapters

Our network team went through a large upgrade ofthe network switches. They ran into issues with the Purescale product and the supported components: At what point will IBM support an MTU of 9000 if indeed PureScale is indeed layed out for the long ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

BigSQL installation using nonroot user needs /bin/bash permissions

For BigSQL v4.2 installation using a non root user such as ambariUser (for example), sudo /bin/bash is needed for this user. Clients is claiming s a security risk for them. They are requesting to remove this permission on installation process or a...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Planned for future release