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Add description of views and columns of SYSCAT schema directly into SYSCAT

Good morning, may I ask You, if it is possible to add comments (SQL comand COMMENT ON ...) into SYSCAT schema views and their columns in future versions of Db2? I mean some extract of documentation ended by HTTP link to the appropriate web documen...
12 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Add Booth Ticket Manager to Pacemaker/Corosync package in Db2

With V11.5, Db2 is now able to use PaceMaker & Corosync to provide cluster resource management. But missing is the Booth ticket manager. From RedHat "The Booth ticket manager is a distributed service that is meant to be run on a different phys...
12 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration
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Apple Silicon / M1 / M2 Support for IBM ODBC/CLI Driver

As a developer on macOS with an Apple Silicon chip, I want to use the IBM ODBC/CLI Driver (downloadable from here) natively. Emulating is possible but since I am using this driver via Python, all my other Python code now needs to run emulated as w...
12 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 8 Future consideration

Automated Re-creation of Select-Star Views

If a view is created by using a 'SELECT *' statement, the view is not updated when a new column is added to the base table. An example: create table dm_tab(N integer, M integer) organize by row; insert into dm_tab(N, M) values (1, 2); create view ...
12 months ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Monitor element, or audit/diagnostic utility, that identifies TLS version of an active DB2 LUW connection (application or session)

We are on the path now to enforcing TLS 1.2 for all SSL at my company. To make it easier for developers, at this point we have enabled TLS 1.2 but are continuing to allow TLS 1.0 and 1.1 database connections. We are hesitant to simply disable TLS ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration

Reorg blocking applications when using "allow write access"

While an "allow write acces" online reorg is running lock-wait contention can happen based on the number of rows being updated by an application. The locks for the application can escalate to lock an x lock. If this situation happens, the reorg sh...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Enhance SQLCODE SQL3015N details

When we receive the following error message (during LOAD): SQL3015N An SQL error "-551" occurred during processing. we only know, that it is an authorization issue. The detail information (authorization-id, operation, object-name) are not availabl...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Future consideration

improved estimation for potential use of Huffman Compression

Requirement for more accurate estimates of DASD space savings when using Huffman Compression. Problem is that estimates produced by DSN1COMP can be significantly inaccurate i.e., as much as +/- 30%. The solution required is a new option on the REO...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Compression 0 Future consideration

DSNAIMS IMSPlex compliance

In an IMSPlex environment with two clones (A and B), we noticed that, in case of clone A unavailability, DSNAIMS call to IMS transactions via OTMA fails. This happens because clone A is pointed statically via parameter xcf-ims-name; this parameter...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

VARCHAR_FORMAT REORG

Please add function VARCHAR_FORMAT in the WHEN statement of a REORG.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration