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db2u-operator should be able to restore a DB to a point in time

Currently db2u restores a database and rollforwards it to end of logs per default. The point in time restore option is an essential feature in every modern DB, and in OpenShift-environments even more so since logging in into the db2-container shou...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Under review

db2u-operator should be available in OperatorHub.io

Our OpenShift environments require a certified source for OpenShift-operators: OperatorHub.ioCurrently db2u is not available there, what prevents us from deploying the operator in our environment. By mirroring a db2u-repository from OperatorHub.io...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

COPY bind option to DB2 LUW.

The customer needed to copy packages from the Windows V9.7 database to the AIX V11.5 database. He used the db2move utility to copy the data and would like us to have a tool to copy the COBOL program packages that exist in the DB2 Z/os environment....
8 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Submitted

Db2 LUW SQL Syntax Check

It would be good if Db2 LUW had a SQL, SQL/PL syntax check engine. You can check queries for correct syntax by using the explain facility, but this doesn't work with DDL statements, functions and stored procedures. An SQL syntax check engine would...
5 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

CORS settings should be controled by user in IBM Cloud DB2 service( like as Cloudant ).

In IBM Cloud, we can use DB2 not only via JDBC/ODBC but also via REST API(HTTP API): https://cloud.ibm.com/apidocs/db2-on-cloud/db2-on-cloud-v4 This is unique and nice feature. This could be a reason to choose DB2( than MySQL or PostgreSQL, .. ). ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Capture FODC when the db2 watchdog not able to start the daemons that died

At present when the db2passwd daemon gets terminated db2 watchdog is supposed to re-instantiate the process. But when its not able to start it for some reason we expect watchdog or the engine by itself should create an FODC and collect all the nec...
4 months ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Submitted

Command 'db2pd -reorgs index' does not show info about the progress of reorg index with 'cleanup all' or 'reclaim extents'

There is a limitation to show info with db2pd -reorgs index for command like reorg indexes all for table ... allow write access cleanup all reclaim extents. It is possibile to monitor progress of reorg offline and online but not for the above case...
9 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Under review

Rolling update when using hadr clusters in db2u container environment

When using a hadr cluster with a db2u operator in a container environment it would be nice when changes on the containers (like db cfg parameter updates) are done in a rolling fashion so that the downtime is minimized. For example when changing th...
2 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Under review

TS016588496: MAX_LOG setting for User vs System Activities, 2003 (MQRC_BACKED_OUT)

As documented in PMR TS016588496, a QRep configuration may fail to apply a transaction to a target system due to exceeding the MQ Log configuration. At the DB layer, the configuration setting MAX_LOG manages how large a transaction may be in terms...
4 months ago in Db2 / Replication 0

Optimize db2advis (recommend indexes) with machine learning (ML) models

Isn’t it possible to use the data model information from machine learning (ML) also for the db2advis (recommend indexes)? The idea is, that db2advis also can use the data model to get new recommended indexes.
12 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Under review