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Db2

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BACKUP DATABASE VENDOR AZURE

Please extend BACKUP DATABASE to support cloud vendor type of AZURE. Presently, DB2 only supports S3 protocols.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Future consideration

DB2_FMP_FODC variable needs to be extended to application traps

Failures in DB2 may result in Trap files, by default written to the directory where DIAGPATH is set, usually $HOME. To avoid disk-full conditions, this can be redirected with db2set variables DB2_FODC and DB2_FMP_FODC for most of the FODC traps. H...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Future consideration

PureScale HADR to non PureScale HADR

Would like to be able to setup HADR support within a PureScale cluster to a non-PureScale cluster. Rob Lemeuix
over 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 Future consideration

IBM Verify Device Deletion (QR/FIDO) Reason Capture

This idea is for ISVA 10.0.7 , the IAM solution does not provide the feasibility of capturing the reasons for deletion of details . This function is important form an audit and security .
3 months ago in Db2 / Security 1 Not under consideration

Add table function to "pretty print" explained statement

Db2 allows to install the EXPLAIN TABLES using a procedure (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_11.1.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.explain.doc/doc/t0059594.html) There are different ways to generate an access plan, i.e., to explain a s...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 3 Not under consideration

Add JDBC Property "localBindAddress"

Remote Connections to a DB should only be allowed from specific source IPs. However, we do have multiple network interfaces in our UNIX environments (AIX, Linux). With MySQL and PostgreSQL, we can use the property localSocketAddress [1] [2] to cho...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Security Patching

Security fixes to be delivered separately from fix packs and easier to install (e.g., just a zap) for db2 connect. Large installation base require complex scheduling to get security patches updated. Security patching is critical due to regulatory ...
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Provide Db2 history of installs/updates including date

For auditing and compliance purposes, Db2 needs to easily make the following information available:- Database Version, Release, ModPack, FixPack (including security special builds)- Database Date/Time of the creation and subsequent updates- Databa...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Full STMM support for BLU

Today SORTHEAP and SHEAPTHRES_SHR need to be set to a fixed value to run BLU.The STMM tuned adjustment don't need to be highly sophisticated. E.g. keeping 60/40 ratio for bufferpool/sheapthres_shr and adjust sortheap as ratio taking the amount of ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

HADR: Enable ROS for all LOBs

At a customer site we tried to use read on standby for reporting. That way we hoped to be able to redirect the load which is caused by reporting away from the operational DB and machine. Test failed because of some LOB-columns which couldn't be al...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration