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Db2 on-premise

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    Create TABLESPACE IF NOT EXISTS

    Some objects in Db2 LUW can use the IF NOT EXISTS in a CREATE (or IF EXISTS in a DROP), e.g. for TABLE. But the option is not available for Tablespaces. I believe it is available in other RDMS products e.g. SQL Server. Could the option be extended...
    16 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

    OpenTelemetry

    Please develop an OpenTelemetry Interface for DB2, so that at least on a top level, DB calls can be traced. Ideally, it could be brokwn down to more detail.
    8 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

    Add a way to wait for bufferpool creation when creating tablespaces

    What we do when creating tablespaces as part of migration files (think flyway, but any similar utility will be relevant) is to create a bufferpool and then create the tablespace. Example: create bufferpool dummy size 5000 pagesize 8k; create table...
    17 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

    Enhancing Guidance and Documentation for Db2: Recommendations for New Features and Db2 Performance Resources.

    Customer is using Db2 with 4K_DEVICE OS(z/Linux) and they were unsure whether to enable the new DB2_4K_DEVICE_SUPPORT feature and requested an improvement because they did not have enough information to make a decision. Improvement of Guidance on ...
    8 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

    Ability for Reorg Reclaim Extents decrease page count from columnar tables

    Currently the Page Count (value seen in column COL_OBJECT_L_PAGES from MON_GET_TABLE) is never reduced even after running Reorg Reclaim Extents.In a columnar table that suffers insert/update/delete we may get into a situation where Db2 will indica...
    4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

    The basic commands should have an option to output machine processable format like JSON

    Using automation tools like Ansible would benefit greatly if commands like db2cm, db2ls, db2 li node/db directory, db2 db/dbm cfg and so on would be able output in JSON format.
    about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

    Db2 Encryption at Rest breaks backup deduplication

    For the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Encryption at Rest is mandatory for many databases. Since we have turned on Encryption at Rest, data deduplication during backups is not working anymore. We always have to save the full 15+ TB...
    6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Under review

    Ability to perform create indexes on a table in parallel

    Typically we need to (re-)create multiple indexe’s on a table. Right now this process has to be performed sequentially - index after index - which can take a very considerable time. We would like to see a feature to able to CREATE multiple INDEXes...
    8 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

    Skip db2prereqcheck for x86 Linux packages as an option

    db2prereqcheck may still "complain" about missing x86 Linux packages. Example: [root@db2v121vm1 ~] # cat /etc/os-release NAME= "Red Hat Enterprise Linux" VERSION= "9.2 (Plow)" [...] [root@db2v121vm1 server] # ./db2prereqcheck -i -l 32-Bit "/lib/li...
    about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review

    Ability to start/stop Db2 listener without instance restart

    During unplanned or planned maintenance work on the database, we need to have the option to quickly block users from connecting remotely on the database. Especially we need to prevent users from implicitly activating the database. Our current work...
    7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

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