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Db2

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Create a new authentication plugin for handling OAuth/OpenID protocol

The customer currently uses Kerberos but indents to move to OAuth/OpenID after upgrading from db2 V11.1 to V11.5 or V12
9 months ago in Db2 / Security 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...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2

need to provide a RENAME SCHEMA statement (other database products provide this)

Need RENAME SCHEMA other databases other than DB2 LUW (i.e. MaxDB from SAP) provide a statement RENAME SCHEMA to rename a schema like a RENAME TABLESPACE/TABLE/INDEX. Needed on all supported operating systems.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Index for a subset of rows

Possibility to index only specific rows of one or more columns. This could be implemented with a WHERE clause in the index create statement and would rsult in a tiny index for exactly the rows you are interested in.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

ONLINE REORG INDEX without logging for HADR

Our Application:24x7. HADR synchronous. LOGINDEXBUILD=ON because of HADR. We have large tables with lots of indexes required for performance reasons. Current problem:We are unable to run online REORG indexes for large tables as this overwhelms our...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration

When using SSL to connect to DB2 on z/OS. Add the OCSP feature in the SSL handshake.

One of the new audit requirements in our organization is that OCSP or CRL should be used when SSL is used for communication. If i'm good informed currently this option isn't available in the SSL communication between DB2 on z/OS and it's DB2 conne...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Improve precision for CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on windows

when asking for the CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on Unix systems, we have 6 decimal precisions for the timestamp value. yyyy-mm-dd HH.mm.ss.nnnnnn - TIMESTAMP(6) but for windows, current_Timestamp just provides a milisecond precision yyyy-mm-dd HH.mm.ss.nnn ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 2 Future consideration

User ID metrics Consistency across several monitor interfaces

User Id identification metrics are not consistent across different monitoring interfaces. Db2 offers different metrics to identify the end user. CLIENT_USERID SYSTEM_AUTH_ID SESSION_AUTH_ID The same 3 metrics should be available in ALL places wher...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Application status change time is not available in any mon_get_* table functions

In snap admin views, users could see STATUS_CHANGE_TIME column for the application which was helpful in determining when exactly the application changed it status when investigating performance issues. This would help users to estimate or know how...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

Make Export add a column header row to output

Export is often used to download data from a Db2 Server to a user's workstation where they then look at it in excel.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration