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Db2

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Enabling readonly mode for database or user. (DB2 LUW)

Would like to see a db level and a user level parameter to enable readonly mode at database level or user level. Currently need to run set of statements to achieve this, which makes management difficult. A single statement to enable readonly mode ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

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...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

Provide checksums for Fixpacks

From a security perspective it would be very helpful to be able to validate that the code downloaded from FixCentral is correct and has not been tampered with (or corrupted during download). Please publish md5 or sha2 checksums for Fixpack downloa...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

AUDIT to track view access

We would like to get a mechanism to AUDIT the access of views. We already use EXECUTE category but at table level. We do not use EXECUTE category at database level because it could impact the database performance. We tested all AUDIT categories ti...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 0 Future consideration

Online db encryption at rest

To implement encryption at rest - we have to do backup - restore i.e. outage to application. OUtage can only be avoided in case of HADR setup which is not always the case. This RFE is to bring feature of online db encryption without any outage to ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DB2 PureScale to Support Oversubscription of Storage in IBM Flash System

The IBM Flash System (FS7300) does such as good job at real time data compression that I am achieving almost 5:1 compression on one of my environments (31TB Written = 6.4TB Physically consumed). So, while it has 80% of the storage allocated to IBM...
11 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

New behavior added to DEC_TO_CHAR_FMT

SELECT CHAR(DECIMAL(1.92,15,2),',') FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1 For Db2 z/OS we use setting BIF_COMPATIBILITY = V9_DECIMAL_VARCHAR For this statement we get following results (for Db2 LUW we have parameter DEC_TO_CHAR_FMT set to NEW) : Database Value Da...
11 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 2 Under review

Implemented the support for XA

The .NET core started XA support from .NET 7 but driver has not yet implemented the support for XA in our core package. Functionality is needed to support 2 phase commit in .NET Windows application
11 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

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.
over 4 years ago in Db2 5 Not under consideration

Lock access plan for a query. Prevent the optimizer from changing a plan, once a "good" plan has been determined.

We see cases where a large query runs fine, and something changes the stats, which causes the optimizer to choose a really bad plan. We would like to be able to lock an individual query, and tell the optimizer: "Just use this plan".
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

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