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Db2

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db_backup multi path option

In netezza we have ability to backup with multiple paths and need same functionality on DB2 warehouse.
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release

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 ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Building better quality dictionaries while doing CTAS in Warehouse SaaS / CP4D SaaS

Product affected: Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Feature affected : CTAS is a Db2 statement - CREATE TABLE AS functionality (CTA) Overview GEICO sees very bad compression as compared to Netezza. Its been observed that currently CTAS uses only the first pa...
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Automate SSL certificate refreshing after CP4D self-signed certificates are renewed (Db2, DV)

I think the SSL certificate refreshes for Db2 and Data Virtualization described below are about internal CP4D communication. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=tddw-updating-db2-ssl-certificate-after-cloud-pak-data-self-si...
about 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Enhanced flexibility for SYSMON_GROUP

Some privileges like SYSMON (or SYSADM, SYSCTRL and SYSMAINT) are only available in DBM CFG for OS group members. We can imagine the following scenerio to enhance flexibilty for those priviliges:Allow adding additional OS groupse.g. db2 update dbm...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Store auditing information directly in a table ( this option does not require files )

Allow DB2 to configure auditing to store auditing information in a table. Information could be retrieved using SELECT commands and there is no need to use system procedures or utilities like db2audit to extract information from files. The purpose ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 1 Not under 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.
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Protect against DOS when user has password expired

Hi team, recently we had open a support case TS004670019 on https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002TrWNRAA3/1222wd-db2-taking-too-long-to-login We had a situation with an automatic process that got it's password expired and begun failing t...
about 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Allow DROP db in QUIESCE mode

In a shared instance, (multiple DBs serving different applications) its almost impossible to DROP a database, without having to shutdown the entire Instance. In order to drop the database, it must be deactivated, otherwise it fails. So, if you...
about 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enhance ALTER INDEX to have MINPCTUSED option (Online)

Allow online ALTER INDEX ... MINPCTUSED %;
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration