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Db2

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When setting 'DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=ORA' in non-ora DB, the resulting string length is different.

when it's going to setup "db2set DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=ORA"~ $ db2set DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=ORA$ db2stop force03/27/2023 18:05:52 0 0 SQL1064N DB2STOP processing was successful.SQL1064N DB2STOP processing was successful.$ db2start03/27/2023 ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Change replace System-defined in db2 luw to consider NLS characters in search.

Wrong result when executing the replace function with certain characters in the codeset euc-kr DB. (It comes out fine for utf-8 DB, but not for euc-kr.) Case No : TS012082536 *L3 team comment* ##################################################### ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 7 Not under consideration

Reorg blocking applications when using "allow write access"

While an "allow write acces" online reorg is running lock-wait contention can happen based on the number of rows being updated by an application. The locks for the application can escalate to lock an x lock. If this situation happens, the reorg sh...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future 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 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add the ability to upload Db2 transaction log files to TSM that had been moved manually by DBA

We use Db2 log archiving to TSM servers. No failover archive path has been set yet. Under rare circumstances we faced situations where log archiving to TSM does not work or slows down and the active log path fills up. To prevent disk full situatio...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 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...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 2 Future consideration

Please add buffering for LOBs

Please add buffering for LOBs
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Data Types / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to keep configuration parameters in sync on HADR standby databases

Currently configuration parameter changes (db2set, dbm cfg and db cfg) on HADR primary database do not propogate to the standby databases. Having an optional clause or switch to propogate the config changes will ensure that on failover to standby ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

DMC (Data Managment console) -- Multi factor Authentication (MFA)

Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is an authentication method that requires the user to provide two or more verification factors to gain access to a resource such as an application, online account, or a VPN. MFA is a core component of a strong ide...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review