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STANDBY_RECV_REPLAY_GAP alert via E-mail and SNOW

Hi Team, We have DMC enabled to monitor DB2 database . We have few databases which has huge log generation and due to which STANDBY_RECV_REPLAY_GAP will be high and we could see on day to day purpose more gap is generating on bigger database. Can ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Encryption utility for RSP files

Goal: create RSP (response) file to install Db2 LUW on multiple systems, but allow for customization of the password for the instance owner without having to go through the GUI installer for each, and avoid displaying the password in plain text in...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

DSM HADR data collection is missing Primary_member_host information on repository database

View - healthmetrics.HADR_STATS contains Db2 HADR Standby host details but does not contain primary member host details. The details is required to pinpoint the active side/primary when the DSM connection is setup using alternate client reroute pr...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

The customer want db2 product match the new standard of GB 18030-2022, which will come into effect on August 1, 2023.

The customer will have to match GB 18030-2022 standard.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Db2 should allow binding its port 50000 on windows to localhost only.

Db2 currently doesn't allow binding its port 50000 on windows to localhost only, this port is left as open port and can be connected from other machines, unauthorized users can exploit this information to test vulnerabilities in the open service a...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 2 Functionality already exists

Monitor DB2 Client

Setup: Currently we have a db2 client installed on the NFS and mounted on all of our app servers. A soft link created from app server home path to the db2profile NFA to access the client from app servers. Pain point: More than 800+ Nodes and 2000+...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Data Management Console UI Changes and refresh frequency for real time monitor

The following UI changes will help users to monitor the real time data: a). Add 'rows return' column under Monitor-> Statements-> in-flight executions page as an option column b). to be able to shrink column less than the length of header na...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Provide SYSTEM / UNIQUE collation sequence support for column organized tables when codepage is 819

The lack of support for anything other than IDENTITY collation sequence for codepage 819 makes migration to BLU very difficult for customers who use it.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Allow use of two factor authentication using smart cards for authentication for ODBC

Security requirements make us move to use two factor authentication when accessing Db2 for z/OS. We do have everything set up for the server side by using AT-TLS ServerWithClientAuth configuration for our Db2 for z/OS systems. We can also make Db2...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

Improve HADR standby replay performance

a)HADR replay master contends with replay worker on queue, and lots of latch contention were observed.b)HADR replay has IO performance issue. Lots of random IOs were observed, and there should be some sort of prefetch IO to improve performance.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration