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Db2

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DB2 STANDBY REPLAY DELAY caused by Offline reorg

IBM case: TS008415413 When an OFFLINE REORG is submitted on Primary, the REPLAY on STANDBY (both Principal and Auxiliary) applies the transactional logs till the BUILD phase. When the reorg moves to recreate or updates the INDEXES, the REPLAYS sto...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Future consideration

Add the ability to control db2sqljcustomize behavior on untyped host variables and prevent silent data type conversion

We modernize a banking database application originally written in COBOL by migrating the functionality into a new written Java application. During this application migration we noticed that there is an issue with unexpected/unwanted data type con...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

DB2 LUW on Linux should support WEKA Filesystem

DB2 LUW (on Linux) should support the Weka Filesystem. https://www.weka.io/resources/white-papers/wekaio-architectural-whitepaper The WekaFS is available on Amazon Cloud (AWS) and allows snapshot functionality (during suspend I/O) which is current...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 1 Future consideration

DMC add ability to switch from AM/PM to 24h representation globally in DMC.

Please add 24h time representation to DMC!!! The Graphs produced by DMC are very beautiful yet hard to read with a time line of AM/PM.
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

HADR Standby logarchiving

Hi, HADR standby databases do not archive log files. the recommendation is a shared filesystem or similar. Shared filesystems adds complexity in failure situations. This request is to enable the functionalty of logarchiving on the standby database.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 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.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

Monitoring Metrics Filter

Hi - While using DMC we noticed that its very much resource intensive since it monitor a lot of different metrics in database. There should be an option where we can use it for different monitoring levels like basic, avg or in-depth depends upon d...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration

Externel table support for: parquet, orc (big data formats)

Currently a DB2 external table support file formats like: CSV nad TXT; and there is also support for external cloud locations like S3, COS, Azure. The option to load data directly from a cloud data lake in hadoop file formats like: parquet, orc, a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / NoSQL 1 Future consideration

Lift the restriction for max 8 charaters in database name

The restriction of a maximum of 8 characters in a database name should be lifted to something more adequate for todays devops pipelines, say 32, 64 or even 128 chars. There is a need to give databases a more descriptive name than what is possible ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Add a new security role to read the logs

Add a new security privileges to allow and restrict the log reads and history file.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration