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Db2

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Enhancements on JSON functionality

We would like to have further enhancements in JSON area like PostgreSQL and Oracle has. Is there any plans on more functions in this area? Db2's JSON support is quite basic.
9 months ago in Db2 / NoSQL 0 Submitted

purescale support HADR ROS

System: DB2 LUW pureScaleActor: User needing HADR read of standby on pureScale environmentNow db2 V10.5 and above had provided HADR component for pureScale but missed Read of standby feature. Description: some customer had used HADR ROS feature on...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 Future consideration

Add package name to SQL0552N msg

When db2exfmt is used from remote clients with different db2levels than the db2 server, than binding of packages with this level is needed. If the users got BIND rights granted, this is done impliziely without problems. However if users don't have...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Activity event monitor and CGTT

Usually section actuals after being prepared with explain_from_activity and db2exfmt has a section called “Runtime statistics for objects Used in Access Plan”. This section has valuable information for the problem analysis. If a Statement uses Cre...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Please replace "password rules" by "password evaluations"

When installing DB2 for GKLM, I am asked to provide a passwords (DB2 and Application), that contains 2 digits, a special, an upper-case and a lower-case character. I tell customers about "quantum safe", long passwords and using special characters....
2 months ago in Db2 / Security 1 Submitted

DMC DB2 Authorization for depricated SNAP Views

To use all monitor functions from the DMC the user that connected to the database that will be monitored, must have a lot of grants to funktions , views and tables. That is totaly managed in the DB2 System. But additionaly some functions such as S...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Looking for ability to specify Data Server Driver and Nuget package for different appls on same .NET server

We are interested in IBM providing the ability to support an application using a Db2 NuGet package for Db2 connectivity and another application using DS Driver or Db2 Client on the same .NET server for compatibility between the Db2 NuGet package f...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 2 Not under consideration

DB2 for z/OS: Ability to Retrieve Output SP Parameters Into Global Variables in Dynamic CALL

Add the ability to retrieve output and inout parameter values into global variables in dynamic stored procedure calls. Need this functionality for DB2 for z/OS. Apparently, it already exists for DB2 LUW.
2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Submitted

WLM threshold for used log space

We need an activity threshold to trigger an action whenever a specific activity consumes more than a given amount of transaction log space. I know that there is already some control mechanism by using DB CFG parameters MAX_LOG and NUM_LOG_SPAN , b...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

page_age_trgt_mcr should be ONLINE configurable

page_age_trgt_mcr is a kind of successor of SOFTMAX and provides the possibility to control the flushing of modified buffer pool pages to table spaces based on time. Unfortunately page_age_trgt_mcr is just configurable, not configurable ONLINE. Th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration