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reduce I/O activity to /etc/services upon each connect

Using filemon, we see 191 accesses to /etc/services for each Connect statement. It seems this file should only be accessed once or twice. This has been verified by IBM personnel with ticket TS001677150.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

NCHR for db2 LUW (new scalar function)

Oracle supports NCHR function. To migrate oracle application, we need this scalar function. NCHR returns the character having the binary equivalent to number in the national character set. The value returned is always NVARCHAR2. This function is e...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Create federation without ID and Password

Like Oracle's dblink, client want a way to authenticate when they access the nickname rather than when federation is created
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Sharing locks between transaction branches also when setting INTRA_PARALLEL is set to YES

We are using DB2 11 for LUW and for an application server we have IBM WebSphere Application Server 9. We have a cluster environment containing several servers. Our applications are running on different application servers(cluster environment) and...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Provide a COPY utility option to skip resetting the modified bits(s) in the space map pages of the page set

IBM COPY utility utilizes significantly more CPU (and elapsed time) than BMC COPY using RESETMOD(NO) and CA Quick Copy MODIFYBITS(NO). The increased CPU utilization prevents us from using IBM COPY. While we understand why in a perfect world we wou...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Date type compatibility in ORA mode

Although Oracle compatibility mode, the result of date type operation differs from that of Oracle. Because the output are different, customer need to modify the application source. so they wants to see the same result as Oracle.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Instance Account Parameters

As per our company AD rules we need either the TSM (DB2) instance account to accept dashes '-' or for IBM to support AD Alias' See PMR - TS000957160
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

db2mtrk not reporting all of memory used

I would like to suggest an update in the documentation. A comment in the db2mtrk page saying that db2mtrk will not report all the memory elements as db2pd -dptnmem.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Create a new role SECADM_RCAC with limited privileges related to RCAC activities.

We would like a new role to be created (SECADM_RCAC) to allow a designated RCAC admin to administer RCAC rules.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Create a separate role for federation.

I tried the suggestions made by John yesterday and it seems to be working so here are two ways to enable user to use federation in self-service mode. 1. Grant user a sysadmin privileges which comes with elevated privileges. User can even make chan...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

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