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Db2

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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 ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

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

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...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 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".
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Add Smartcard certificate support for ibm_db (Python) client driver

Python is the most popular language in the area of data science and widely used in combination with Db2 - especially in environments with IAS accelerators. At the same time, many large and/or security-concious environments in general no longer acc...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

I'd like you to consider to add new stored procedure ADMIN_TASK_CANCEL ( like in the DB2 z/OS version https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=db2-admin-task-cancel) in the next fix/mod/main version of DB2?

Because now I can't stop the running procedure scheduled via ATS unless I stop the instance manager.
11 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Submitted

import MON_GET_ROUTINE_DETAILS

Whereas having the MON_GET_ROUTINE data is nice, there are times where you need to get the detail data for the various time slices to truly understand the issue on a system. The biggest issue is seeind the data summarized at the database level in ...
11 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Allow for the parallel restore of multiple different db2 tablespaces when Incremental Backups are present

Refer to Case TS000107666 for more info. Allow for the restore of multiple db2 tablespaces in parallel when Incremental Backups are present. Parallel tablespace restore with incremental backups should accommodate: rebuild db restore (with subset o...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Improve blackout window scheduling

Improve blackout window scheduling to allow select day/week of the month. In example my need is to set a blackout window for a set of databases on the 3rd Saturday of each Month @ 4 AM.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Functionality already exists

Evolved dictionary

Affected Product: Db2WoC Evolved dictionary - dictionaries evolve automatically to better quality and data be recompressed without user intervention. GEICO and some other customers like Bank of America (BofA) have been requesting this feature for ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

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