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Db2

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Please replace "password rules" by "password evaluations"

When installing DB2 for GKLM, I am asked to provide passwords (DB2 and Application), that contains 2 digits, a special, an upper-case and a lower-case character. I tell customers about "quantum safe", long passwords and using special characters. H...
4 months ago in Db2 / Security 1 Submitted

DB2 LUW Allow Online (Mostly) Index Creation

Hello IBM, Currently whenever we create an index on a table we see significant number of lock timeouts for the applications. We are running a pureScale cluster and not able to create Indexes ONLINE. Pain points: We use DB2 LUW pureScale as a...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 3 Not under consideration

Partial early aggregation (PEA) in a federation system

Extend the Db2 optimizer combined with federation for partial early aggregation (PEA). Push down SQL queries to a federated database to reduce traffic from the remote source significantly.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

DB2 for z/OS: Ability to Retrieve Output SP Parameters Into Global Variables in Dynamic CALL

Add the ability to retrieve output and inout parameter values into global variables in dynamic stored procedure calls. Need this functionality for DB2 for z/OS. Apparently, it already exists for DB2 LUW.
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Submitted

Control loadbalancing type of db2u-c service in Kubernetes

DB2 only offers nodePort for external exposure. However it would be natural to be able to control the loadbalcing type (i.e. ClusterIP by default, but allow for LoadBalancer). Additionally it would be favourable to place annotations on the service...
4 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Db2 Houskeeping of combination of Snapshot Backups and TSM Backups

At the moment Db2 supports housekeeping of backups by DB configuration parameters rec_his_retent and num_db_backups. These parameters are used by the customer for years for Db2 TSM backups. Both parameters are set to a value of 8 - ensuring more t...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Percent/Dynamic/Automatic Value for NUM_LOG_SPAN

NUM_LOG_SPAN species a number of log files. If the number of log files changes (LOGPRIMARY, LOGSECONDARY, LOGFILSIZ) the absolute number of NUM_LOG_SPAN should be adjusted as well. If NUM_LOG would be a percent value of the primary log files there...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Bufferpool and tablespace creation authority to DBADM

Create of a tablespace and bufferpool requires SYS* authorities. It made sense in earlier days when SYS folks needed to create filesystem, mount point etc. With automatic storage enabled database, it makes a perfect sense to delegate these authori...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

db2diag.log change ZRC=0x82100101 Sever and Error message to Informational

IBM support has informed us that the following messages can be ignored, if so, then they should not appear as "Severe" or "Error" in db2diag.log, suggest we change them to "Info": MESSAGE : ZRC=0x82100101=-2112880383=SQLP_LOG_NOT_ACTIVE "Log need...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2

DB2 LUW Federation Server should be able to use Sysplex Workload Balance (WLB) when connection to DB2 z/OS.

Implement Sysplex Workload Balance (WLB) for DB2 Federation Server connections to DB2 z/OS sysplex data sharing like exists for JDBC driver/DB2 Connect.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

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