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Db2

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Ability to flush or clean up catalog cache

Larger catalog-related changes, like revoking privileges from many users at the same time, are also updating the catalog cache. The cache may hold invalidated or "orphaned" entries. Those entries are only removed in an asynchronous fashion. Until ...
3 days ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Submitted

Integrated Cluster solution on AIX: Move from TSA to PowerHA

DB2 has moved from TSA (Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms) to Pacemaker as integrated clustering solution on Linux. We use TSA in production, and we think this is a wise move, as TSA is not robust and manageable enough for a dependable s...
10 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 5 Submitted

Option to avoid sampling for the distribution statistics without creating an index

Because of a misleading distribution statistic the Db2 optimizer can in some situations choose a very bad execution plan.The reason for this is, that Db2 internally samples data to faster create his distribution statistics. To create an index to a...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Submitted

Possibility to check object state on HADR standby without ROS

Unfortunatelly some people on our HADR systems do deployments for which we are forced to set BLOCKNONLOGGED off (it's normally on on all systems). This may cause (depending on what they do) that objects on HADR standby become "destroyed" because t...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration
299 VOTE

Apple Silicon / M1 / M2 / M3 Support for IBM ODBC/CLI Driver

As a developer on macOS with an Apple Silicon chip, I want to use the IBM ODBC/CLI Driver (downloadable from here) natively. Emulating is possible but since I am using this driver via Python, all my other Python code now needs to run emulated as w...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 66

dmctop should be able to work with pseudo-terminal

dmctop has the limitation that it does not work with pseudo-terminal In new sudo versions the default in /etc/sudores is „use_pty“. This setting is because of a security issue and should not be changed. This means that dmctop does not work togethe...
2 months ago in Db2 / DMCtop 0 Submitted

Pacemaker on Db2 Linux HADR - ability to add more than 1 network interface as a resource

We use 2 network interfaces in our Db2 server setup: one public and a private used by the HADR-traffic. Other servers even have more interfaces. I'd like to be able to add them as a pacemaker resource.
9 days ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted

I'd like to be able to push alerts from DMC to my central monitoring teams and tool (SquaredUp in my case). Or get an API to get alerts.

I'm running Data Management Console 3.1.12 to monitor and manage 125 database in our production environment. Today, the only way I found to get database alerts is to schedule a script that reads the alerts from my repository database and puts the ...
22 days ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Submitted
430 VOTE

Reorg Utility Progress data is missing in db2 list utilities and db2 list utilities show detail command

The db2 list utilties and db2 list utilities show detail command will not display the Reorg utility progress. 1) The command will display the Runstats progress details for the table 2) The command will display the Load progress details for the tab...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 72 Future consideration

Simplify Database Migration for Clients Migrating from DB2z to LUW

Background: Clients who are migrating their databases from DB2 on mainframes to LUW, commonly use the ISO8859-1 code set. These clients need to maintain the exact sorting order they had on the mainframe, which utilizes the EBCDIC collating sequenc...
2 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Submitted

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