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Db2

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Make SYSMON_GROUP configurable online

Make SYSMON group configurable online. Currently an outage is required to set or change SYSMON. While some DBAs set this whenever they build a system, others do not, and it is frustrating to request this fairly common level of permissions and to h...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Add new STATUS codes to SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE to reflect different states of the tablespace

This would provide the requestor who wants to do a one stop shopping when looking for a state such as Advisory Reorg of all the tablespaces in that state.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

use of wildcards for table selection with REORG,RUNSTATS etc

Certain utilities that most of the time operate on a (sub)set of tables like REORG and/or Runstats would be much easier to operate if the set of tables to be processed could be selected by means of wildcarding. The wildcarding should be enabled on...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

DMC Needs to update DB2 Version that is reported after a DB2 upgrade/patch is applied

DMC is not picking-up and reporting the upgraded version of DB2 after applying a patch. It continues to report the version upon initial connection setup. A manual reconnect of each database connection in DMC will update the level reported; however...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Support for SAP HANA in Db2 Replication Service

A large Federal customer has a requirement to replicate, in near real-time, SAP HANA to Db2/Db2Wh. Our documentation page for the Data Replication Service shows that CP4D can support Db2 Warehouse as a target, but that SAP HANA is currently not su...
8 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

HADR/TSA/DB2 hang detection feature to have TSA automate a failover during a database hang

Today in HADR failover scenarios we do not detect the database hang on the primary and failover the database to the secondary servers using TSA automation. we need the script needs to accommodate the database hang and failover the database to the ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server .Net Provider Support For Informix Types DATETIME

Hi, we are in the process of moving from .Net Framework to .Net Core. Currently using the Net5.IBM.Data.Db2 driver connecting through the DRDA protocol.For DATETIME data types we are having trouble searching. A simple query is throwing the excepti...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 5 Future consideration

Provide support for deploying Db2 Warehouse under Rancher K8

Currently we deploy Db2 Warehouse in Openshift. It would be useful to support other implementations as well like Rancher K8.
8 months ago in Db2 / Warehouse 0 Submitted

Please make DB2_HADR_ROS a dynamic registry setting

Please make DB2_HADR_ROS registry a dynamic registry variable.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Functionality already exists

index based restore of a table space from backup image file

Want to restore the contents of a tablespace from a backup.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration