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Db2

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Allow Read Only Sharing on HADR while Catalog updates

We are trying to use HADR Read only Sharing to allow ad-hoc query against a 4Tb transactional database. The standby should allow us to reduce the impact of ah-hoc business queries. The application is a vendor supplied document storage and retrieva...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Delivered

pureScale to support Mellanox ConectX-4 IB & RoCE adapters

pureScale can only support Mellanox ConnectX-3 and lower version. More and more customer are using ConnectX-4 and higher version of IB and RoCE adapters, for higher throughput and lower latency, which greatly improves pureScale performance.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 2 Delivered

Multiple cross invalidation (XI) connections in RDMA networks on pureScale

High concurrent inserts & selects result in very high CF CPU usage, and CF wait time is lengthened.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Delivered

Upload db2 load copy images with db2adutl from filesystem to tsm

Currently using db2adutl only db2 database or tablespace backup images and log files can be moved from a filesystem to TSM using db2adutl. Load copy images cannot be moved using db2adutl. Example: $ db2adutl upload images /loadcopy/DBTEST.4.db2ins...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Delivered

Db2 Connect Support for Java 11

I will build the system in “Java version11”.however, “Db2 Connect” does not support “Java version11”.I hope that “Db2 Connect” will support “Java version11” by 2019/11.Thanks.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Delivered

ProActive DB Connections Requirements

In the current state where we call the pool.Open() function provided in the go_ibm_db library, it doesn’t establish any connection during the call and only when we execute the query on the provided *DBP(struct) object it creates an actual db conne...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Delivered

National character data type support in non-unicode database like Oracle

Kookmin Bank is doing migration project from Oracle. Oracle based on national codepage such as MS949 supports the unicode data types such as NCHAR, NVARCHR, NCLOB. Now Db2 supports them in Unicode database. The requirement is asking to enable at n...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 0 Delivered

increase DB2 sector size used to write to disks from 512 to 4096

We would like DB2 to use a larger sector size when writing to disks. We uncovered a performance issue when working with DSSD from EMC where to achieve the maximum write throughput a 4096 sector size is required, Db2 currently uses 512 sectors. MS ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Delivered

PureScale high ports statically defined

We require consistent and specific ports to be used for PureScale inter-member communications. It would be ideal if this can be configurable. Currently PureScale requires us to open all high ports >=1024, as per documentation https://www.ibm.co...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Delivered

Support for Windows 2016 on 10.5

Requesting support for Windows Server 2016 in DB2 ESE 10.5
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Delivered