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Db2

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Please create current training material for Db2 administration

Please create basic training material for database administrators on Db2 that is easily consumable and free. A platform like EDx, Udemy, etc, would be ideal, but even on a proprietary platform would be acceptable.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Statements Event Monitor should include UOW (transaction commit) to give similar capability as a db2 z/os trace

When trying to diagnose an online transaction problem, I could not find a way of tracing the transaction with an Event Monitor to include the implicit commits of the XA Transaction (XA-PREPARE, XA-END). I raised ticket a ticket with IBM (mentioned...
3 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

Db2 TOTAL_CPU_TIME monitoring metric on AIX should reflect "wall" CPU time and not use PURR-scaled time reported currently by thread_cputime AIX API

Db2 monitoring interfaces report "CPU time" metric (TOTAL_CPU_TIME), which accounts the time that given activity/request (and all higher level aggregated interfaces) spent actively "on CPU" whilst executing the query. On AIX this information is ob...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Use package collection other than NULLID for CLP and Db2 Utilities

Db2/zOS colleagues want to get rid of lock issues with rebind of packages in schema NULLID, thus the decided to have Db2/zOS release specific package collections to provide actual and rebound packages for every Db2 release to the distributed (Db2/...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Allow CREATE/REPLACE for users other than owner

Currently on Db2 LUW CREATE OR REPLACE is only allowed for the owner of a database object. CREATE OR REPLACE authorization should be opened up to allow create/replace by anyone who has the ability to drop the object and to create the object with a...
over 6 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

Official documentation of FMP enhancement variables DB2_AGENT_CACHING_FMP and DB2_MAX_THREADS_PER_FMP

Valuable enhancements for db2fmp processing have been added back in Db2 V8 and V9 already via APAR (e.g. IZ08425), but they are still NOT documented for Db2 V10 and V11, although they are valid and available. Concerning Java stored procedure handl...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Restore of online backup taken with older Db2 version

Current product limitation don't allow to restore an online database backup that were taken with a older Db2 level than the on of the Db2 instance . Our production environement must be available on a 24x7 basis and this limitation is a serious lim...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add a field in MON_GET_TABLE function to check whether Restrict on drop is enabled or not for a table

Missing Restrict on Drop clause while creating table can be costly! (DB2LUW) DB2 LUW provides a clause called "Restrict on drop". This clause should be used while creating a table. With Alter statement it can be disabled too. Why missing this clau...
9 months ago in Db2 2 Functionality already exists

Switch the "IBM Data Server Client" over to an MSI installer for Windows machines

Currently the installer uses an ancient InstallShield installer that is a nightmare to roll out. It would be nice if it could be transitioned over to an MSI installer because those are easier to uninstall and roll out.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review

Allow offline backup to automatically force all Allow offline utilities such as backup, restore, rollforward to auconnections

Modern enterprise applications are often using connection pooling for database access. Connection pools are usually monitored by application servers, and dead connections are reestablished with minimal delays..For offline backup operations, this l...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration