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Db2

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Externel table support for: parquet, orc (big data formats)

Currently a DB2 external table support file formats like: CSV nad TXT; and there is also support for external cloud locations like S3, COS, Azure. The option to load data directly from a cloud data lake in hadoop file formats like: parquet, orc, a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / NoSQL 1 Future consideration

DMC alert forwarding to Microsoft Teams

A Public/Federal customer requires the ability to forward DMC/database alerts to Microsoft Teams in the on-prem Cloud Pak for Data platform.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Under review

Add db2move option to read/write compressed files

Sometimes during a migration diskspace runs low. It would be great to have an option for db2move, which reads/writes files compressed or pipe it through gzip/bz2/... This would lead to a storage reduction during migrations of roughly 80% plus redu...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Grant 'create, drop and alter a tablespace' authority to specific user

The Sysctl group can create, drop and alter a tablespace in db2 and also have all authorities of SYSMAINT and SYSMON. Customer just want to give tablespace control authority to specific user.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Garbled text on the IBM Db2 Data Management Console provisioning instance screen in the service catalog of CP4D v4.8.4 (software version).

When navigating to the IBM Db2 Data Management Console provisioning instance screen from the service catalog in CP4D v4.8.4 (software version), the text becomes garbled as shown in the attached image if the browser's language setting is Japanese. ...
7 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Stop requiring Db2 to be run in a --privileged container

Using the ibmcom_db2 docker image, even when adding a license to it, or installing licensed Db2 to a container based on a supported O/S requires running in a docker container with the --privileged switch. This is not a good practice and cannot be ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Add URL Shortener to KC Pages

If you try to properly source knowledge center or promote a feature within knowledge center (say via twitter or linked-in), you copy and paste a URL that is easily over 100+ characters long. If you lose the ability to cut/paste (say in the PDF of ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Make the Db2 jdbc driver available in public Maven repository

Copy of an idea from here: https://ibmcloud.ideas.aha.io/ideas/IDEA-I-2616.One thing I really like about open source databases is that they are so easy to start developing with.In java for example, I can create a project add the maven details for ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Enhance SYSIBM.SQLFUNCTIONS to deliver meta data required by JCC (JDBC V4)

This is a quite old story. Back in 2015 this had already been addresses by COGNOS team IBM internally, but due to the possible impact to existing applications, it was refused to open an APAR for this issue. But RFE or DCR has not been opened by CO...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Add support AIX 7.1 for Db2 11.5.4

I support my customers system which runs DB2 ESE on AIX 7.1. We were on DB2 10.5 and upgraded this Summer to 11.5 which compatibility reports showed as a supported configuration. Now that we are looking at applying 11.5.4 fixpacks, I'm finding the...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

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