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Db2

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pureScale Online node removal

Topic : Moving a DB2 member or a cluster caching facilityURL : https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_10.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.sd.doc/doc/t0056896.html?lang=en It mentions about the procedure :To move the only DB2 member: 1) Stop t...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Functionality already exists

Pause an online DB2 LUW backup

We would like the ability to pause an online backup in DB2 LUW, then resume it later. Although I selected Linux for the operating system, I would like to see if available on Unix and Windows also.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

allow ORACLE RAW(n) data to be used in a FS pushdown function

what reported in PMR 12893,227,000 treated as expected and a RFE suggested to help address the need
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0

Increase the maximum allowed size of DB2 V10.5 data types in create nickname

SQL Create Nickname statement returns the following error:SQL0901N The SQL statement failed because of a non-severesystem error. Subsequent SQL statements can be processed. (Reason "Invalid nickname column length". SQLSTATE=58004, SQLCODE=-901, DR...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements to DB2 Ingest

In DB2 Ingest , need an option to specify that character delimiters are to be parsed as column data, when the data files do not have a character delimiters, like nochardel file type modifier in load.
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Eliminate the restriction of IB and RoCE mixture for db2iupdt in pureScale

We are promoting the Technical Partnership with Huawei in China, and make more customer use DB2 database with Huawei Hardware (FusionServer as High performance computer, and FusionCube as the use-as-box-open). In typical DB2 pureScale configuratio...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

Exclude the DGTT from the objmaint audit

Add an option to exclude the DGTT from the objmaint audit.
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Support codepage GBK for DB2 BLU

As of DB2 for LUW Version 10.5 Fixpack 7, DB2 BLU still doesn't support non-unicode database, e.g. GBK. We need DB2 BLU to support database in codepage GBK, so that Chinese characters can be internally stored in double-byte, otherwise a data page ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

DB2TCP_CLIENT_KEEPALIVE_TIMEOUT doesn't work on Linux

DB2 unable to detect dead network card on server when setting registry variable DB2TCP_CLIENT_KEEPALIVE_TIMEOUT. Since it does not detect the dead network card, this prevents automatic client re-route from starting. Problem is specific to Linux pl...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Need real timestamp in backup images

Customer would like to have the backup image "timestamp" be generated with correlation to the real timestamp.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration