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Db2

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Increase Database Name Length Restriction

Real Life Scenario: With Devops and the introduction of "Infrastructure as Code", a database build can be done via Helm Charts, K8's, Cloudformation templates, etc. Automation can dramatically increase how often a database is built and how many cl...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Provide certificate based authentication

We'd like to see certificate based authentication being offered for DB2 LUW and DSM.
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Pacemaker to be able to start instance on new Standby post network isolation incident

Hi IBM, we had a network isolation between between Primary and Standby database servers for 5 minutes. Pacemaker promoted Principal Standby DB to be primary and killed the process on old Primary DB. Network isolation has passed but Pacemaker didn'...
2 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Db2 Connect Client steering thread recycle

Enhance Db2 Connect client for distributed workload. problem statement: Today Db2 DDF will close the connection to recycle the thread. This happens conditional (recycle-time limit, after Commit, no open cursors, other conditions). The client will ...
7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Revision of the DMC installation

We're trying to install DMC in our environment, but we're having some issues with it: - documentation for the Linux installation is not complete - why is the db pagesize for the reprodb 8 k and uses EXTENDED_ROW_SZ? Db pagesize 32 without EXTENDED...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

Enabling Restrict on Drop clause logic in create table command for db2 LUW

There is a feature called "Restrict on Drop" that should be used by the database designers while creating a table for the db2 LUW database 1) If a database designer uses this "Restrict on Drop" clause for the creation of the table then the tabl...
over 5 years ago in Db2 7 Not under consideration

Integrity Validation of SW and Updates

In order to complain with the Security Framework Controls of a product which uses Db2 connect SW the following requirement should be fullfilled: "Before applying the software and security updates, their legitimate source should be validated and in...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 2 Planned for future release

Allow EBCDIC collation for column organize tables

Db2 does not support anh collation other than IDENTITY or IDENTITY_16BIT per this link - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=to-restrictions-limitations-unsupported-database-configurations-column-organized-tables. Customers who are wanting ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Db2 partitioned table, set range of partitions to read only or read write mode

Table data is partitioned as specified in the PARTITION BY clause of the CREATE TABLE statement.At this moment if we create partitioned table, we can only set whole table to read only access using SET INTEGRITY FOR table OFF READ ACCESSor let it b...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Ability to stop runaway BigSQL query without access to OpenShift pods

Using Cloud Pak for Data as a service, one should be able to stop a runaway BigSQL query without access to OpenShift pods. Per IBM recommendation, we are using BigSQL to access parquet files stored in Cloud Object Storage. This is supported in Clo...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 2 Future consideration