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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...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Allow REST queries to be run asynchronously

Currently when using CADataConnector.read_data() to access data in Notebooks, there is a hard limit of 5 minutes. After this, the request will fail. This is caused by a timeout of 5 minutes on all REST queries. Please allow users to run REST queri...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

DISPLAY TERMINATED DUE TO INSUFFICIENT MESSAGE SPACE

Applications moving to the cloud have significantly increased the number of locations accessing Db2. Current limits within the -DISPLAY LOCATION command prevents the command from displaying all possible locations. This idea is to remove this limit...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Automatic Lock-Escalation from Row- to Extent-Level

Db2 is mainly using row-level locking and tries to avoid lock-escalation to table-level. This behavior is helpful in most of Db2s use cases, but there are some particular situations when locking on a higher level than row would be beneficial. Cons...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Require Change to Primary Index When Primary Constraint is Changed in Alter Session

Currently when an alter is performed on the primary constraint for a table, Admin Tool will warn that a corresponding change should also be performed on the primary index. However, you can back out of that warning and generate WSL which does not i...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Online restore of a range partition. Db2 takes a lock on the whole table during the restore.

I have a range partition table with NO global indexes. The partitions have their own tablespaces. Db2 takes a Z lock on the whole table when restoring a single partition.We thought that we could restore a partition online and that all the other pa...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Going back to workflow previous versions

While workflows show the version number, there is currently no way to go back to older versions.
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 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...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Hardcoded Credentials and key Disclosed in properties files

Hi Team, We got AppSec observation as given below. We have raised the PMR as well but not able to fixed it. PMR No: TS012417843 Requesting you kindly review below points and provide fixes for the same. PFA for your refernce. Obervation: During the...
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

Management Console compatibility with macOS

I'd be nice to be able to use the IIDR Management console on a macOS, although chcclp is available for linux it will be usefull to be able to open de UI in macOS running java with a jar with the bundled management console or similiar. Any tips w'd...
3 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration