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Db2

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Exclude the DGTT from the objmaint audit

Add an option to exclude the DGTT from the objmaint audit.
almost 9 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 ...
almost 9 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...
almost 9 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.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

To request that DB2 code page conversion table can support HKSCS-2008 for codepage 1375

Per DB2's documentation, DB2 code page conversion table can only support HKSCS-2004 for codepage 1375: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_10.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.nls.doc/doc/r0004565.html?lang=enhttp://www-01.ibm.com/suppor...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Enable db2dsdriver.cfg for JDBC

Enable db2dsdriver.cfg for JDBC. JDBC parameters should be seen by the JDBC tools.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

DB object version control

Idea of versioning objects: UDFs, views, mqts and procedures. When we are replacing mentioned above objects with new statements we have to save old statements in notepad (or sth similar) in case if we want to return to previous version.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

support of the new data type NUMERIC from Teradata

Creating a nickname to a teradata server ends with error: SQL3324N Column "xxxx" has a type of "N " which is not recognized. Target column type NUMERIC is not recognized
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Optimization profile mimic

add a new option to the explain tool to create an xml document containing the optimization guidelines matching the access path
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Add an optional control to stop HADR when non-logged operation occurred on primary

Currently, if there were non-logged operation such as loading data into a table on HADR primary, the log replay will continue on standby and the HADR state is still peer. But that table on standby can't be accessed. The application may not work on...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration