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Db2

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There is no method to quickly get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image

It is not possible to get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image without first restoring the image or by using 'db2ckbkp -l' but it is also too long as it has to read the entire backup image (this can be long if the image is stored on TSM /...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Db2 client authentication with certificates like SSH (public/private) keys

Provide the possibility to authenticate with public/private certificates for the current client user like SSH does
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 3 Not under consideration

Request is to make WLM Effective only on primary, on STANDBY it should not be in effect

Why is it useful? It helps us restrict the access to users who has readonly access on standbys to accidentlally connect to primary and run some rogue commands. who would benefit from it? We as DBAs, This gives us confidence on how we can use the r...
8 months ago in Db2 / Workload Management 2 Submitted

Allow REORG INPLACE and modify REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS on ITC tables

Beginning Db2 v10.5, REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS on ITC tables also implicitly performs sparse extent consolidation before freeing empty extents ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/10.5?topic=enhancements-reorganization-make-table-maintenance-easier ). Ho...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

DMC for P10 systems (pLinux)

Provide ability to administer, monitor, manage and optimize the performance of IBM Db2 on the P10 systems.
9 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Online BAR from pureScale to non-purescale

There are many cases that a database on the purescale cluster is needed to move on non-purescale instance. for example,backup, development or DR system . However, oracle does support this.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / pureScale 0 Future consideration

Poor performance on DB2 V11.1 due to changes in build process

Some customers are noticing performance degradations moving from v105 ESE to v111 ESE on the same hardware.These degradations are most pronounced in OLTP workloads, with an emphasis on INSERT and UPDATE operations. Db2 Support has confirmed that t...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Make Db2 Connect ready for the future (which is already here)

Hi IBM Community, hi IBM Support, as part of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux version change, at the moment we have to set up many new server systems for the application software we support.Our application software relies heavily on DB2 and so the IBM D...
10 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Create new SQL-VIEW to show ALL GRANTS

Today we have a useful sql-view named SYSIBMADM.PRIVILEGES that aggregates in a consistent and easy way to query all different types of privileges that are currently granted to an authid. This is very useful. But we lack some other stuff like info...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration

Provide the ability to use db2audit data in the DMC.

Please provide a way to store db2audit data in DMC and to easily view, use, and report on audit logs. Currently db2luw can only store and extract audit data, but there is no repository db and no way to use it. I hope DMC will have such a feature a...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration