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Db2

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Recover database from "Backup in progress" hang state without restarting the database

When a full online backup is running and an Abinitio (DAIP) job runs and create new staging tables (or drop them), it caused an impact to the database that we are not able to recover from. Most of the tables (if not all) will be in a “Backup in pr...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

db2set -g DB2INSTDEF instance incorrect install version makes global registry unusable

db2set -g DB2INSTDEF instance incorrect install version makes global registry unusable. This can be caused by an upgrade from Version 9.7 to 10.5 or accidently by someone making a mistake setting an instance from another software version to be DB2...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

db2look to exclude generating DDL for sequence objects

db2look has option to exclude generating definition for views, federated objects,... etc, and this is great. It would be good if it also offer option to exclude things like sequence objects, and maybe just include objects like functions, stored pr...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Need to develop one API to fetch DB2 Memory

As we know IBM has DB2 api to fetch the db2 Disk Storage size and usage, But we don't have any api to fetch db2 Memory size and usage. So please develop the same type api for memory also. For Authorization we can use Bearer token.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Audit like DB2 for z/OS in Syslog (SMF-Sätze, Type 100 und 101)

um neuen Compliance-Anforderungen begegnen zu können, sollen alle Datenbanken im laufenden BetriebSecurity- und Statistik-Informationen über Zugriffe liefern. DB2 for z/OS macht dieses über die z/OS System Management Facility (SMF-Sätze, Type ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Db2 REST API should support apikey for authentication

Currently the Db2 REST API supports authentication by user/password but not apikey. This means that programs cannot take advantage of service IDs and IAM. A real nuisance.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Enhance DSNACCOX

Based on the recommendations from the recent Best Practices webcast, I believe that DSNACCOX should be enhanced to reflect these recommendations. Rules to trigger reorgs For indexes: Pseudo-deletedentries: REORGPSEUDODELETES/TOTALENTRIES > 5% ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Begin / End COMMIT instrumentation for DRDA, CICS/IMS

Complex CICS/IMS or DRDA transactions (involving multiple programs with an implicit Commit at the end) are incorrectly presented on the Omegamon Accounting Report/Trace. By design the costs of the tough SYNC (COMMIT) operation are added to the las...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

db will be blocked and hang after mon_heap is run out

agents will be blocked and will hang after mon_heap is run out when database turns on event monitor. Now it is works as design, yet customer hope we can change the design and decouple between event monitor and the agents executing some SQLs. So ag...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

improve exception logging for connection strings in .NET connector for DB2

While we were attempting to setup SSL connectivity from a .NET app to a DB2 server, we were getting the following error:CLI0157E Error opening a file. SQLSTATE=HY507 a vast majority of the documentation available online (and IBM support) indicated...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration