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Db2

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Make DB2 federation option DB2_TWO_PHASE_COMMIT compatible with HOST and PORT options

The new Db2 11.5 HOST and PORT options (see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=options-database) remove the need to catalog federated source Db2 databases for standard connections. This simplifies configuration. However, for two phase comm...
10 months ago in Db2 / Federation 0

SSL encryption enablement with data direct ODBC driver for DB2 Federation Server to SAP HANA

We need SSL encryption enabled with data direct ODBC driver for DB2 Federation Server to SAP HANA. This is the response from IBM Support team. Federation server doesn't support SSL with SAP HANA ODBC drivers. To connect to SAP HANA, customer has t...
about 3 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release

DMC Reports vs DSM Reports in Email

1) DSM we are getting an email with the database report attached through email , which was easy for us to SAVE / download directly without logging into DSM console . 2) DMC we are getting an email with the link to DMC console where we need to clic...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Support log switch under SET WRITE SUSPEND EXCLUDE LOGS

Today Db2 cannot switch to a log file while write suspend. Therefore a archive log gets performed at beginning of write suspend. Then the write suspend can only last and the database can only work until 1 log file gets full. The time a database is...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Need easy to use backup/restore solution for text search indexes

Rollforward recovery, PIT recovery with text search indexes is a manual and error prone process. It often means recreating the text indexes to match the data in the tables. This is extremely time consuming.The Db2 for z/OS solution for text indexe...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Text Search 0 Planned for future release

Real global CGTT (not SESSION local)

SAP BW needs to materialize data into persistent (regular) tables to be able to access it from multiple session (connections). CGTT and DGTT in Db2 cannot be accessed from multiple sessions/connections. Therefore those temp tables that don't requi...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to query catalog tables and administrative views in stand by

There is an option called Read On Standby (ROS) that allows to connect and perform selects on the standby role of a HADR cluster. However, this is focussed to business tables. I propose the capability to perform selects on the standby but just on ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

db2 backup instance use snapshot wanted

db2 backup instance use snapshot wanted We have more then one database in an instance and the current implementation of db2 backup database use snapshot can not handle that. We want to make a snapshot for all databases in an instance and preferabl...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Add Transaction Application lock types to the DBMS_LOCK package

We understand that there is an implementation of a version of the Oracle DBMS_LOCK package (minus transaction type and various modes) available on Db2 for LUW. While we can make some use of the session application lock type, we also have a need fo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Reduce size of LOAD COPY dataset for tables with LOBs and XML

A LOAD COPY where the table being acted on has one or more LOB columns is much larger than the original data / final table size / post load backup. From investigation it is based on the pagesize and extentsize of the underlying tablespace. This pr...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration