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Db2

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HADR: Ability to take incremental backups on either host and maintain the incremental chain for restore

In an HADR environment it is not possible to restore / recover the database with backups which are taken from both sites of the HADR cluster (after takeovers). You have to use the backups from the one site or from the other site. You can't mix the...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Create a feature to DB2 11.5 Compatibility of online backup and other utilities

Request a feature on DB2 11.5 so online is backup is compatible with DDLs that require a Z lock (such as ALTER TABLE, DROP TABLE, and DROP INDEX). We have a daily eligibility and customer extract jobs that is running on a nightly basis that requir...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Alias for REST Services

Db2 REST services, with versioning enabled, sets the first service created via the BIND SERVICE command to be the default service. at this stage the URL and the REST service are in sync and the URL need not reference the version as DB2 will invoke...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE should immediately fail or at least warn when source table is ineligible for SWAP

Even after upgrading the database to Db2 V11.5 and beyond, older tables with check constraints and/or generated columns that were created before V9.7 will still cause the SWAP phase of ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE to fail with SQL0668N reason code 10. The und...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Allow IAM access for server to S3 to work for Db2 backups

AWS allows a server or container to have an IAM role that allows access to S3 and other resources without authentication. However, cataloging a storage alias requires a key and secret key to work, regardless of whether the IAM role is set up for t...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Future consideration

Server Tracking Tool

Mirat | Suits Your IT Asset Discovery Needs Overview For the last several years, companies are moving towards IT diversified environment which includes cloud, virtual, and mobile devices. The companies decided to make a common place for connecting...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Future consideration

Number of Occurrences for Alert

Alerts need to have the option to set a consecutive number of ocurrences for a check before it alerts. This is an option present in other monitoring tools and prevents a lot of false alerts. Example being number of connections, we have an threshol...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

A DB cfg parameter to set the default tablespace to prevent objects ending up in the wrong TS

When not explicitly set in the CREATE TABLE statement, a newly created table will end up in the last created tablespace. A lot of customers have problems with this for several reasons. They have no control over table placement when using a framewo...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

Revoke on function blocked by depended objects.

The revoke on a function is being blocked due to dependent on the target object. revoke EXECUTE ON FUNCTION "xyz"."aaaaaa"(DATE) from PUBLIC SQL0478N The statement failed because one or more dependencies exist on the target object. Target object t...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration

Start Commandline-Script in Stored Procedure

Executes external commandline-scripts from stored procedure. The stored procedure call should work like following: select * from (VALUES '`sh /tmp/test.sh`') AS TEMP(Testoutput); With the script i check if new created tables or views from developm...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration