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Db2

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Externalize dictionary information using ADMIN_GET_TAB_DICTIONARY_INFO for BLU tables

BUILDER,BUILD_TIMESTAMP,SIZE,ROWS_SAMPLED and are important information to be able to determine how good a dictionary might be.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Delivered

Enable hostname validation in Db2 using TLS/SSL

When connecting to a Db2 database via TLS/SSL, the client must compare the hostname it used to open the connection against the server name in the server certificate. This is currently not an option in Db2. It's required to prevent man-in-the-middl...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Delivered

Enable SSL on restservice wrapper

We are configuring federation setup to Mongo DB using rest service, However authentication is failing as Mongo authentication is enabled with SSL , we couldn't able to configure from Db2 end , due to which connections are failing .
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Delivered

New DB2 for LUW Automated Failover Option

DB2 HADR - TSAMP integration. Treat a set of databases on a server, even across DB2 instances, as a unit. If one database has a failure and has to failover then we want all the databases in that unit to failover. And just as important, we want to ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery / pureScale 1 Delivered

Support LOB data types for DB2 BLU

DB2 BLU still doesn't support LOB related data types. Some existing databases in DB2 or other RDBMS, such as Oracle, need to be migrated to DB2 BLU and contain some tables with LOB data types. Without LOB data types support for DB2 BLU, they have ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration / Data Types 0 Delivered

Tiebreak disk as second quorum mecanism for clusters with DB2 + HADR + TSAMP

Customer have some DB2 cluster with HADR and TSAMP. By default this kind of cluster uses network quorum as tiebreaker mechanism. And there is not a secondary mechanism to verify the quorum state of the cluster if any issue affect the gateway or th...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Delivered

Provide source IP connection information on db2diag.log for all cases of SQL30082N events

Db2 not always provide the source IP connection information on db2diag.log entries, where authentication failures happens - SQL30082N This is a regular footprint on db2diag entries, when an authentication fails to connect to the database. 2020-04-...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Delivered

Protect any database history entry against automatic pruning/deletion

It would be nice, to be able, to protect recovery history entries against automatic deletion, which are not relevant for recovery: "runstats", "load", and "reorg" for example.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Delivered

Do not overwrite db2setup.log

During installation DB2 writes to db2setup.log. If installation is started a second time the previously created file db2setup.log is overwritten and all the information of the previous install attempts is lost. If installation routine would rename...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Delivered

Make db2ilist more informative

Since db2ilist lost its ability to display the bitness of instances it was just capable to name all users, who have linked the sqllib directories. db2ilist would be much more useful, if it could show the instance type (server, client, ...) and e.g...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Delivered