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Integrity Validation of SW and Updates

In order to complain with the Security Framework Controls of a product which uses Db2 connect SW the following requirement should be fullfilled: "Before applying the software and security updates, their legitimate source should be validated and in...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 2 Planned for future release

Capture FODC when the db2 watchdog not able to start the daemons that died

At present when the db2passwd daemon gets terminated db2 watchdog is supposed to re-instantiate the process. But when its not able to start it for some reason we expect watchdog or the engine by itself should create an FODC and collect all the nec...
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Submitted

DB2 Support for Business Partners

Suggest allowing access to DB2 Support for IBM Business Partners companies who do not have a valid support contract, nor may have a valid DB2 licence at all, but despite all that devote their (working) lives preaching, selling and supporting DB2 f...
over 2 years ago in Db2 4 Functionality already exists

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 8 years ago in Db2 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 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Allow multiple IWS subsystems/instances for a single ADDI project

The client has more than one IWS subsystem associated with a single application Currently only one IWS subsystem is allowed for each project, which does not allow the client to import all batch jobs associated with an application in a single proje...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLES needs to support INDEXES on EXPRESSION

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE (AMT) procedure fails in SWAP phase, if the table to be moved has an expression based index defined. This issue has been lifted partially, as the RENAME of the table is now supported with INDEX on EXPRESSION (IoE). But in our case...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 3 Future consideration

Asynchronous index rebuild on first access

Pain point: Index rebuild stops if user terminates the connection accessing the table with an index that is marked inconsistent and it starts over from the beginning again on next table access by another user. Scenario:An index object is marked in...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

LOAD / ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE COPY YES and LOB improvements

In an OLTP / TSA HADR environment .. When using the COPY YES on ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE it uses LOAD under the covers. When LOBs are involved howere it writes out the full buffer 64k up to several 100k is written out per column/per row to a file which is...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Give an option to add label to VIP in a DB2 integrated pacemaker Cluster

If we have multiple instances running on same host then it becomes very difficult to check which ip address maps to which VIP Example : Pacemaker cluster with two instances and have two Primary VIPs [root@sapgc5db201 bin]# crm statusCluster Summar...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 2 Future consideration