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Db2

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MON_GET_CONNECTION is lacking CODEPAGE of connection

A 3rd party application connects to Db2 and we get SQL0302. The 3rd party vendor figures out, it is a double conversion to UTF-8One of the most valuable debugging informations was the codepage of the connection to the database, which is available ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Can't create a nickname on a table containing a STRUCT datatype

Can'create a nickname on a DRDA table containing a geospatial column . Problem description and business impact Using DB2 ESE 10.5 FP8 (and the Spatial Extender component) on Redhat 7.2, I can't create a column on a DRDA remote table containing the...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

db2 "export to employee.del of del modified by coldel\t select * from test1"

DB2 Export cannot export data with a two-digit delimiter (\t). If I want to export data separated by \t, DB2 will not be able to support it
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 3 Future consideration

DB2 database backup on Google cloud storage

We can utilize Google cloud storage directly for the database backups.
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 1 Future consideration

Automate Online Reorgs

Currently, automatic reorgs can only be performed offline. The additional functionality we are looking for would be the ability to perform automatic in-place/online reorgs. The benefit of that is users still have full table access during the proce...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

DB2 CLI connect to remote database with encrypted password file

The DB2 CLI command line does not provide a way to use an encrypted credentials file to connect remote DB2 databases.The idea is to have a similar solution like the encryped password file for SQL/Q-Replication.The replication tool asnpwd can creat...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add Q Replication Monitoring to Db2 Console

IBM configuration, management, and monitoring GUI tooling for the IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IIDR) Q Replication component is comprised of Q Replication Dashboard (deprecated) and Replication Center (sort of deprecated) with prior hints that...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Federation to support Spark in Databricks platform

Our enterprise data lake has Spark in Databricks and have many projects/ applications waiting to access these datasets from datalake for their use cases, using Federation server Nicknames. We did a quick test in our lab for which we were able to c...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0

Restore Critical Files [only]

In case of a mistakenly deletion of files in/below the instance home directory of Db2 it should be possible to restore [only] these files/directories etc. At the moment if files/directories are mistakenly deleted, a complete database restore would...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 4 Not under consideration

Need GSKTRACE tool to format binary GSKTRACE ouput ... similar to DB2 z/OS

We have enabled TLS on a db2 connect gateway SSL cipher specs (SSL_CIPHERSPECS) = TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384, TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 SSL versions (SSL_VERSIONS...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration