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Db2

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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 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 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 0 Not under consideration

MySQL Listener

So I know there is a Mongo listener so that you can speak mongo to DB2. I also know DB2 understands the MySQL dialect; there should be a listener so that applications can connect to it, the app thinks its mysql, but the back end is db2.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Add a way to pre-encrypt db2 user password before adding it in response file to do db2 silent install.

We are OEM customer to provider our user Db2+Cognos installation, we're using db2 silent install with a response file, for now, there is no way (no tools, no command) to encrypt a plain db2 user password so that we can add this encrypted password ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 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 0 Not under consideration

Shell scripts to perform command line operations

We are looking for shell scripts to perform operations such as Add databases to monitoring Update collection ID Update password for collection ID Above were already there in DSM.
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

lock event monitor runs under first-connection-user

lock event monitor takes authID in the database (e.g. as seen via list applications views) of:The first user that connects to the database.
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

BLU Load message improvement for SQL3119W

DB2 BLU load on LUW provides a less than optimal message for SQL1119W. It reports that an input data value has been replaced by NULL but does not indicate which specific input row caused the error resulting in no good way to troubleshoot the issue...
about 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server Runtime Client on Mac OS?

Given the increase in Mac users, having the DB2 client available on the Mac would be prudent.
about 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

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