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Search results: Db2 on Cloud

Pause and Resume compute resources

Ability to pause and resume compute resources per the needs of the application.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud Planned for future release

SYSPROC.DB2LK_GENERATE_DDL to become a supported and documented feature and to match db2look

We are using db2 LUW V11.5M8FP0_SB35599 on Linux It is a DPF database. We are using the following 2 db2 tools to generate the DDL of the same database: 1) db2look 2) SYSPROC.DB2LK_GENERATE_DDL - the command used for db2look is the following: db2lo...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud Submitted

Enable 'SYSADM' authority to end users in Db2 on Cloud

In the db2 database configuration for IBM Security Verify Governance Identity Manager, the 'CREATE_EXTERNAL_ROUTINE' authority is required as part of setup. This is not supported on DB2 Cloud since granting it requires the 'SYSADM' authority which...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud Not under consideration

RUNSTATS ON ALL SYSTEM TABLES / VIEWS

We as DB2 admins would like to perform some regular maintenance activities on the many databases we take care of. Due to certain regulations, the database(s) officially belong to our Db2 customers. We basically would need their allowance to perfor...
6 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud Submitted

REORG ALL SYSTEM TABLES

We as DB2 admins would like to perform some regular maintenance activities on the many databases we take care of. Due to certain regulations, the database(s) officially belong to our Db2 customers. We basically would need their allowance to perfor...
6 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud Submitted

DB2 UI should support selection of active tenant

As with db2 12 multitenant support was added, using the UI of the DB2 Cloud service is limited when using the tenant functionality. While for the SQL window it is still possible to use "Set Tenant X" as a first statement followed by the actual SQL...
12 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud Submitted

Support temporarily adding additional PVs (storage) for use in temporary tablespaces (reorgs, partial restores, admin move tables, ...)

As an enterprise customer, there are actions to improve data structure or performance by reorgs or admin move tables. Having large indexes and tables with tablespaces >4 TB, there is the need to create temporary tablespaces. However, today this...
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud Submitted

Support separation of volumes for DB2 data and transaction protocol (following best practices) and support flexible scaling (up and down) of volume for transaction log

We request that DB2 on cloud stores transaction log in a separate PV so that there is no risk of running out of storage when doing large reorgs increasing secondary log files. As today tx log and data is on the same PV, there could be a problem wi...
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud Submitted

Db2 on Cloud should provide the same redundancy/HA capability in the HADR nodes as it does on the primary nodes.

Db2 on IBM Cloud provide consumers with BCDR capabilities by allowing one or more HADR instances to be created in various regions and provides a simple push-button promotion process to affect DR fail-over/fail-back operations. However, when runnin...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud Submitted

Feature of TERRITORY Improvement Request for Db2 on IBM Cloud

When the service is deployed, the territory is automatically set to US, which prevents them from using the service as intended. Any workaround that would allow setting the territory to Japan is required by the end of April. Alternatively, if there...
7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud Submitted