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Db2

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Federation JDBC Wrappre to Cassandra support

Officially support and optimize performance from Federation (Db2 Linux/Unix/Windows) server to Cassandra database Improve data type mappings between Cassandra and Db2. Accessing Cassndra via Federation JDBC wrapper using Cassandra driver from www....
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

DB2 processes such as db2ckpwd and db2wdog run as root

The DB2 processes such as db2ckpwd and db2wdog run as root, which results in elevated system level access by those processes. Since root access is elevated system level access, a malicious user may gain access to other OS level APIs/processes and ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Not under consideration

Allow unencrypted password in an SSL conversation

This is a request to align the behavior of DB2 LUW with that of IBM i and DB2 for z/OS when connecting with a DRDA client. With the other 2 platforms, if DRDA is configured to require user/password to be sent encrypted with minimum encryption leve...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Let a change of a SYS*_GROUP in the dbm cfg be reflected in the db2audit secmaint.del-file next to/instead of in db2diag.log

For security monitoring purposes every 30 minutes our production db2audit-files are archived, extracted and uploaded to a special security server for analysis purposes. However very important information is missing: when changing a SYS*_GROUP, the...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Reference to undeclared column should result in RC08, instead of RC04

In the COBOL program an INCLUDE statement is used where a DCLGEN is declared. The copybook ZSTBF02 is attached. When the COBOL source contains an SQL statement where a column is used which is not declared in the DCLGEN, a warning is issued in the ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Moving only a single partition with AMT procedure for online reorg

Since the performance of inplace reorg per partition is too slow, customer want to use AMT procedure for online reorganizaiton. However AMT can specify table level only, not partition level.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Add support for XML and LOB in the ingest utility

Add support for XML and LOB in the ingest utility
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Favor BID index against TBSCAN for MDC tables

Ref: case TS000043776 2 DMLs working on different dimensions on MDC can lead to deadlock when this should not happen.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Automatic Archive Log Pruning when Non-Db2 Snapshots are used

Db2 on Cloud Pak for Data, OpenShift, k8s (a.k.a Db2U) primarily relies on k8s or Velero Volume Snapshots. However, Log archiving is enabled by default in Db2U. Therefore, even when automatic log pruning is enabled, since the backup happens outsid...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Fed Server Kerberos support for Greenplum

Morgan Stanley would like to have a Greenplum driver for Federation server. Eventually they would like to have Kerberos supported for authentication to the Greenplum Server
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration