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Db2

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enable pureScale to support AD/VAS authentication and not require the presence of the instance owner id in /etc/password.

At Bank of America, we have strict standards and requirements for db2 authentication. We use Active Directory across the enterprise and use the vas tool from quest to access AD from the linux environment. We do not store passwords in /etc/password...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

KnowledgeCentrer on Docker

Sometimes the knowledgeCenter is not reacheable or it is not working for different reasons, and the access for the documentation becomes an issue. For this reason, I suggest to have the KnowledgeCenter downloadable as a Docker image, as it was pos...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Lock event monitor does not log hex values of prepared statements

When using the lock event monitor to track prepared statements involved in lock timeouts/deadlocks, it was observed that parameter marker values for hex entries are not logged even though the option for history and values is enabled. This works fi...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Knowledge Center Search Issues

The IBM info center (online searchable documentation) has become less and less useful over the years. Documentation on a topic is often fragmented across multiple pages that link to each other. This makes it very difficult to find a piece of infor...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Support DECFLOAT in federated data type mapping between Db2 and Db2 for z/OS

Add support for the DECFLOAT data type allowing NICKNAME creation against a Db2 for z/OS table with a DECFLOAT column. Without this support, the CREATE NICKNAME fails and a workaround is required to map the data.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Fluid Query 0 Not under consideration

Parallelize the logs in the online backup image

If you have a large amount of transaction logs created during an online backup operation, and logs are include in the backup image, at the end of the backup Db2 adds the log files to the backup file. Right now it appears to be a serialized operati...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

DGTT ON COMMIT DROP OPTION

DB2 z/os supports that DGTT tabe can be drop on commit. My customer who is migrating to db2 luw want to drop table on commit as well.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Direct read of Archive logs from TSM server when using db2 rollforward on crossnode restore operations

Usually our Db2 backups to TSM. Occasionally we restore a Db2 system in another operating center from where we have to access to the TSM server for Restore/rollforward. In the target environment the Db2 archive logs are extracted via db2adutl afte...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Functionality already exists

Allow SELECT INTO to assign query results to Local Variables within a Function/Procedure

When trying to assign a query result to local variables within a PROCEDURE or FUNCTION using Dynamic SQL only a DYNAMIC CURSOR (see below) can be used which leads to more complicated and lengthy code. However, using SELECT INTO (see below) could b...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Allow Table-Valued-Function (TVF) within DB2 SQL PL Module

Within a SQL PL MODULE, a Table-Valued-Function/TVF cannot be created, but outside of a MODULE, this can be done. This seems to be a restriction on MODULE functionality given that they are an analog to PL/SQL PACKAGES. Our request is to allow the ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration

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