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Db2

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Bufferpool and tablespace creation authority to DBADM

Create of a tablespace and bufferpool requires SYS* authorities. It made sense in earlier days when SYS folks needed to create filesystem, mount point etc. With automatic storage enabled database, it makes a perfect sense to delegate these authori...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Incompatible platform variation of Db2 software

Our mission-critical system on the IBM i 7.1 has been in operation. But we are promoting the project that upgrades our IBM i 7.1 to i 7.3, because of software withdrawal and support discontinuance.So that also DBMS become upgrade to Db2 for i V7R3...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Make it simple to setup SSL connectivity

There must be something that can be done within Db2's installation/configuration steps to make it easy for users to enable SSL connections - as easy as it is to set up non-SSL connections (or as easy as typing "https://" in a browser window). This...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

DB2 HADR Standby Database act as CDC Source

We use DB2 ,DB2 HADR and CDC in our production system. Now we can only use the DB2 HADR primary database as CDC source. DB2 HADR standby database can not support acting as CDC source now. So we hope add a new feature,ie : DB2 HADR Standby database...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 Not under consideration

No Column Information shown when viewing Indexes

When exploring Indexes, when an Index is selected, It shows a great many things about the Index, except it does not show the Columns that make up that index. I have went to different views (Dependencies, Alter) but the Columns that make up the ind...
10 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

Enable 2-Factor Authentication for Remote DB2 LUW Connections

Provide an option within DB2 LUW to require 2-factor authentication using a password composed of a personal PIN plus a token code, provided by a vendor such as RSA.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Allow modification of column-organized columns

Currently, in column-organized tables you cannot alter or rename columns and you even cannot drop columns. The only allowed operation is to add a column. This renders the column-based-tables pretty useless because in a normal environment, it must ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

DB2 CLI driver should include all public Root CA certificates

Our applications connect to DB2 using the CLI driver. For years this was not an issue until the SSL certificate expired on the DB2 server and had to be replaced. The replacement certificate was not signed with the same Root CA packaged with the dr...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Increase the maximum size of a LOB object per table or per table partition

SQL and XML limits https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_11.1.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.sql.ref.doc/doc/r0001029.html The maximum size of a LOB object of 4 terrabyte leads to the necessity of partitioning the table just due to this limit. S...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 2 Not under consideration

Add Support for Redhat 8 for DB2

We have customers who want to run on Redhat 8 and are not able to do so, this limits our ability to offer solutions to a wider audience.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Functionality already exists