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Db2

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provide Container and storage paths info when asking for tablespace details

In monitor views related to tablespces monitoring, when asking for detail for a specific TAblespace, DMC could provide Containers and Storage-Path informations. Storage -> Tablespace Performance - > Details Storage -> TableSpace Utilizati...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Need DB2 LUW to support NUMA processor technology on Windows

The NUMA processor group technology is currently not supported by DB2 v10.5 and up for Windows. I would like IBM to add support for this feature in DB2 v10.5 and up as soon as possible in order to take full advantage of my server. (Currently runni...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Planned for future release

Add the ability to manually tune DB2_HADR_HANG_DETECTION

Currently DB2_HADR_HANG_DETECTION is set internally and can't be configured. Customer's environments may involve slower responding components and may result in Db2 triggering the hang detection even though the system isn't hung. It would be useful...
10 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Job Management Functionality

The job management and scheduling component in the DB2 Data Management Console does not have the same functionality as it had in the Data Server Manager. A person can't edit a job that someone else created which makes it very difficult for a team ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Add MS SQL Server 2019 support in Federation & Q-Replication...

TSMC needs to replicate data from DB2 ESE to MS SQL Server 2019. As you know, MS SQL Server 2019 already been GA recently (2019/11/04 https://sqlserverbuilds.blogspot.com/2019/01/sql-server-2019-versions.html), they are requesting this new feature...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

ROCE Virtualization support for DB2 pureScale

ABC (Agriculture Bank of China) are going to deploy lots of pureScale clusters, and each cluster does not demand lots of CPU/MEM/IO resources. Customer wish to deploy pureScale clusters on VMWare virtual machines to save physical machines and most...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Future Function (eg EFA) Availability about Db2 pS on AWS

Escalation for future function availability by Aug-2024: 1. Support AWS EFA as pureScale private networking (CF communication) 2. Support AWS io2be(Block Express) as Storage device
10 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0

Verify OVERFLOWLOGPATH is valid at the BEGINNING and allow override in RESTORE DATABASE command.

When restoring a DB2/LUW database Db2 currently restores the database and then abneds if the OVERFLOWLOGPATH is invalid. A restore can take many hours and having the restore fail at the end of the restore wastes all those hours.
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

Create a feature to DB2 11.5 Compatibility of online backup and other utilities

Request a feature on DB2 11.5 so online is backup is compatible with DDLs that require a Z lock (such as ALTER TABLE, DROP TABLE, and DROP INDEX). We have a daily eligibility and customer extract jobs that is running on a nightly basis that requir...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Ability to copy an existing monitoring profile

It would be nice to be able to create a new monitoring profile from an existing one then modify it to meet our needs. This option is available in Data Server Manager but not in DMC.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration