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Db2

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Db2 pureScale - Enforce of different db2diag path to mitigate the pdlog lock stuck issue

We use Db2 pureScale in many environments using POWER System. In a specific situation of resources adjustment (CPU and RAM) in a Cache Facility (CF) we experience an unplaned outage. This happened after adjust the resources and perform the CF rebo...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Delivered

Dependency on systemd added in DB2 11.1.1.1 prevents installation in RHEL 7.3 docker container

Idea created for the RFE closed wrongly - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=103478 21 vote(s) as of Mar 13, 2019 We use Docker containers to perform automated testing of our products on various prerequisite s...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Delivered

Make TSA start DB2 under system.slice, in order to gracefully stop/takeover databases on shutdowns/reboots.

Since init was replaced by systemd as the linux main process (in 2014 !), it makes huge difference the way DB2 is started. At server shutdown or reboot, the user processes are all killed, and only then systemd starts to stop the services. This beh...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 1 Delivered

Add bulk insert feature to the Db2 federation

Db2 Federation offers different types of wrappers to transfer data from a source database to a target database. For the federation from Db2 LUW to Oracle we tried the JDBC, NET8 and ODBC wrapper, but all wrappers process the rows one by one. To ge...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 4 Delivered

Enable access of hidden columns with federation

Basically, federation is a client application of the data source, so what the database expose to client is seeable for federation. As for the hidden column, it's designed not visible to client, the hidden column is not able to be fetched from the ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 2 Delivered

Single source for User access details

The SYSIBMADM.PRIVILEGES view should be enhanced to include all privileges that a user has on the database. currently it reports most of them but does not include data about a user's access on Columns & SurrogateIDs . i.e from syscat.colauth &...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Security 2 Delivered

32k System Temporary Tablespace Should be Created by Default

If Administrativ Views, e.g SYSIBMADM.DB_HISTORY used with ORDER BY, a 32k system temporary tablespace must exist, otherwise the following error occurs: db2palg@axvxx1190:/db2/PROD/db2palg> db2 "select * from SYSIBMADM.DB_HISTORY order by Star...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 2 Delivered

HADR SSL support for cipher configuration

Currently with v11.1 Mod4 Fixpack 4 there is no functionality to change the SSL cipher used to communicate between Primary and Standby. The DBM CFG parameters SSL_VERSIONS or SSL_CIPHERSPECS do not apply to HADR. HADR is hard coded to use TLS v1....
about 5 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Delivered

DB2 Adv Ent Edition with pureScale 11.1.x and InfiniBand support for RHEL 7.6

We are using currently using DB2 Adv Enterprise Edition with pureScale version 11.1.2.2. on RHEL 7.4 kernel and InfiniBand network backbone. We need to upgrade the RHEL 7.4 which is already out of support and RHEL 7.5 being out of support by March...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Delivered

support array fetches for embedded SQL COBOL applications

With Db2 Version 11.1 Mod3 Fix Pack3 iFix001 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, the CLP command precompile or prep now supports EXEC SQL statements like this: EXEC SQL FETCH c1 FOR :cnt ROWS INTO :pname, :deptEND-EXEC. However, DB2 precompiler services...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 2 Delivered