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Db2

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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 ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade / Security 0 Not under consideration

BigSQL installation using nonroot user needs /bin/bash permissions

For BigSQL v4.2 installation using a non root user such as ambariUser (for example), sudo /bin/bash is needed for this user. Clients is claiming s a security risk for them. They are requesting to remove this permission on installation process or a...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Planned for future release

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

Ability to stop using of AOT and other db2 tables on the IDAA

When we STOP or start for UT ,spaces of tables that are loaded to IDAA or spaces that relate to AOT's, these spaces are still available for the IDAA. We can SELECT data from the IDAA for these tables and for AOT's' we can also update them. We need...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under 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 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Set DB2_USE_FAST_PREALLOCATION on the stogroup level

We would like to have an option to set the allocation of a FS at a SG level to fast pre-allocation. We have large DMS temporary tablespaces that on a failover to our remote site, we rebuild from scratch. when rebuilding a large DMS temp FS (800GB)...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enable registering SSL connection information for databases cataloged in LDAP.

For databases enabled with SSL connectivity, it would be useful to be able to register the protocol and certificate storage information in the LDAP catalogs as well. Currently the db2dsdriver.cfg supports including this information as part of a da...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review

fencing agent handle promptly and avoid server reboot when it noticed minor lib changes at OS end

Dear IBM Thank you much for such great imitative on HA Auto failover feature on DB2 LUW. We have implemented PACEMAKER with fencing technology on huge number of DB2 servers. Following are the challenges which needs to be addressed and improve the ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 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...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 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.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration