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Db2

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Online db encryption at rest

To implement encryption at rest - we have to do backup - restore i.e. outage to application. OUtage can only be avoided in case of HADR setup which is not always the case. This RFE is to bring feature of online db encryption without any outage to ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Lock access plan for a query. Prevent the optimizer from changing a plan, once a "good" plan has been determined.

We see cases where a large query runs fine, and something changes the stats, which causes the optimizer to choose a really bad plan. We would like to be able to lock an individual query, and tell the optimizer: "Just use this plan".
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Index reorg information in a SNAP* view or a MON_GET* table function

Please make index reorganization progress (not table reorganization) accessible via a MON_GET* table function. Right now, it is only available via db2pd -d dbname -reorg -indexes and that is nearly impossible to parse via script.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Allow Wildcards in ADMIN_GET_TAB_% functions

Example: if one uses a query like this:SELECT ... FROM TABLE(SYSPROC.ADMIN_GET_TAB_COMPRESS_INFO('SCHEMA1', '')) WHERE TABNAME LIKE 'ABC%' The Function will run for all tables in the given schema and after that will filter the output for predicate...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Db2 Warehouse Developer Edition coomon container for version 11.5.7 and 11.5.8

Db2 Warehouse Enterprise edition v.11.5.7 and 11.5.8 common container are delivered and available for push via IBM Cloud repository. Due to unknown reasons Db2 Warehouse Developer Edition v.11.5.7 and 11.5.8 common containers are missing and are n...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Warehouse 2 Not under consideration

Provide checksums for Fixpacks

From a security perspective it would be very helpful to be able to validate that the code downloaded from FixCentral is correct and has not been tampered with (or corrupted during download). Please publish md5 or sha2 checksums for Fixpack downloa...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Allow for the parallel restore of multiple different db2 tablespaces when Incremental Backups are present

Refer to Case TS000107666 for more info. Allow for the restore of multiple db2 tablespaces in parallel when Incremental Backups are present. Parallel tablespace restore with incremental backups should accommodate: rebuild db restore (with subset o...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

db2diag installation for UNIX Db2 clients

If you are looking for connection errors of an UNIX Db2 client, you will find that db2diag is missing.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Finer granularity of configuration parameters

Many configuration settings are currently at the whole level of granularity. 1) Similar to 'use' privilege at the tablespace level, it would be helpful to be able to grant 'load' privileges at the tablespace level too. Currently it is a database-l...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

DB2 database in a read only mode

Ability to place a DB2 database in a read only mode for a period of time. Out side of the "db2 set write suspend for database" or a quiesce.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

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