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Db2

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Include failure / warning counts in mon_get_pkg_cache_stmt

It's currently not possible to monitor the failure rate of an SQL statement. For example, count of dupkey on INSERT. Likewise for 'soft' errors (warnings) like +100 - row not found on INSERT or DELETE. High rates of these can be a significant drai...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Delivered

IBM DB Python Driver: Support for wheels and smaller module

It would be great to have some form of binary distribution of this Db2 driver for Python. It would simplify building Docker containers and help reducing the container size and setup time.
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 3 Delivered

Improve performance of SET INTEGRITY command through use of (intra partition) parallelism

SET INTEGRITY does currently not make use of intrapartition parallelism. SET INTEGRITY (with "checked" option) for large tables and/or tables with many foreign key and/or check constraints consumes a large amount of time while the table is not acc...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Delivered

.NET Core 3.0 Support

I have a developer who wants to use Blazor to build his application. It needs to query Db2 for z/OS. He reported the following error when using the Entity Framework driver with Db2 for z/OS: Method 'get_Info' in type 'IBM.EntityFrameworkCore.In...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 16 Delivered

support array fetches for embedded SQL COBOL applications

With Db2 Version 11.1 Mod3 Fix Pack3 iFix001 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, the CLP command precompile or prep now supports EXEC SQL statements like this: EXEC SQL FETCH c1 FOR :cnt ROWS INTO :pname, :deptEND-EXEC. However, DB2 precompiler services...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 2 Delivered

enable catalog database with SECURITY SSL in LDAP (MS active directory)

After enabling ssl for connections to db2 we want to register (catalog) database in Microsoft active directory (LDAP) to provide it to all user. But "db2 register db2 server in ldap as DATABASE protocol tcpip hostname hosta svcename 50005 SECURITY...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development / Security 1 Delivered

Request for SKIP LOCKED DATA for DB2 LUW

Our products are implemented in all 3 relational databases. We are converting the current application level lock handling into database level locks. In one scenario, the application looks to fail when it is not able to get the required lock in the...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 2 Delivered

Improve Standby Replay Performance

In our environment, the replay on the standy database is not able to keep up with the speed at which the PRIMARY is able to process data. Our replay gaps often exceed 100 GB, and this means that any failover would be delayed. We use HADR for high ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 Delivered

Db2 LUW support on RHEL 9

Please support RHEL 9 on v11.5 and vNext. RHEL 9 was released in May 2022 and we have consumers wanting to use the latest operating system. End of support for RHEL 8 is May 2024 but it takes time for us to package, test and deploy new Db2 modpacks...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 2 Delivered

Allow usage of NX842 hardware compressed backup together with backup encryption

NX842 allow backup compression without CPU overhead, but cannot be used in conjunction with encryption feature.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Delivered