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Db2

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Error DIA3202C in db2diag.log does not include database name

getting an error in db2diag.log that a connection to a database ist not possible because of a TCP/IP call does not work. In our case a connection to a remote database should be established, which was already dropped. But there is no database name ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Make multiple DDL changes transactional

Why is it useful? When complex changes are made in DDL and one of the changes fails, it can get pretty hard to revert the issue. Who would benefit from it? Implementing this idea would tremendously help database administrators. How should it work?...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Functionality already exists

Restrict World Readable permission on Instance home directories for DB2 on Linux

/home/<intance directory> is with world readable permission amd it is considered as major risk on security. Instance home directory defaults to /home and any directory with world readable permissions on /home is tagged with highest security ...
8 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Planned for future release

Adding sticky bits setgid and setuid on DB2 directories

System details: ITM version: 6.3.7 SP13 OS: Linux OS RHEL 7.9 TEPS-DB: DB2 v11.5.8.0 TDW-DB: Oracle Database 19c We have received a security compliance finding related with DB2 world writeable directories. The following 2 directories are world wri...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Perform rebuild of each index (for a table) in its own transaction

In the current design, all the index rebuilds for a table are performed within the same transaction (as the action that triggered them). If the transaction is interrupted (e.g. user interrupt or dropped session), then the entire transaction is rol...
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration

Support of TO_SINGLE_BYTE (oracle function) in 1363 code page database

Needs for higher Oracle compatibility.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Limit the 'list of tables' to display when using Ranger authorization

We need to limit the list of tables to display to non authorized users when Ranger policy are enabled. We followed the steps described in this article, but it doasn't work when using Ranger to manage users authorizations: https://www.ibm.com/suppo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

support "fixed record length" for load/import with UTF8

Load and import do not support "fixed record length" for MBCS.The field offsets have to be specified in bytes only.There is no possibility to let the data movement tools "think in letters, instead of bytes".
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under 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...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 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.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

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