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Db2

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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

Allow creating allow/deny list of system calls possible by fenced external routines

This will secure the database further from malicious users trying to break out into the host running managed Db2 services on Cloud. This can be done using:1. seccomp() before spawning the db2fmp process and 2. Making more secure SELinux policies f...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Allow native support of user-defined collation such as EBCDIC in CREATE DATABASE command

This will allow easy creation of databases on LUW supporting EBCDIC collations which will in-turn allow easy migration for Db2 on z/OS to Db2 LUW. Currently, this is only supported via the user-defined option of sqlecrea() api and a C program has ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Simple Configuration & Health script that reports high-level database metrics

The purpose of a simple Configuration & Health script is to provide DBAs with a high-level view of macro database metrics that could suggest specific areas worthy of further investigation. The report would include these components as follows: ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Expand db2 autoconfig to identify configuration settings less than default value

Db2 autoconfig is one way to identify configuration settings that are less than the current default of the current release. Since in-place upgrades preserve the configuration settings from the previous release, DBAs must manually find and determin...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Decreasing CF memory is slow

While working with PureScale, there may be a need to create room for new DB in the system. Once this happens we need to reconfigure CF memory, while keeping system up and running. We are concerned regarding CF_MEM_SZ , CF_GBP_SZ and CF_DB_MEM_SZ, ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Future consideration

Bitwise operators bigger then 64 or 113 bits

We use the bitwise operators for a lot of things. Right now bitwise operators are limited to a 64 bits or 113 bits. We have a need to use bitwise operators at let's say 8192 bits; a number bigger than 113 bits.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Oracel "select any table" feature in DB2

Customer need a read only user to do the extract in the data warehouse project or to do the monitor. With the 'select any table' privilege ， after customer create some new table,that user only have the read only privilege on those new tables.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Functionality already exists

dmctop for ppcle

While exploring dmctop I did not find a version for power machine. So IBM engieneering requested me to submit a request for the same.
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Future consideration

Modify permissions on DB2/LUW installation directories

During installation and instance creation of DB2/LUW ESE (and AESE), the following directories are create as world writable (OTHER permissions of 777) without the sticky bit set: sqllib/db2dump/DIAG0000 sqllib/db2dump/events sqllib/tmp sqllib/uif ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

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