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Db2

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New DB2 for LUW Automated Failover Option

DB2 HADR - TSAMP integration. Treat a set of databases on a server, even across DB2 instances, as a unit. If one database has a failure and has to failover then we want all the databases in that unit to failover. And just as important, we want to ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery / pureScale 1 Delivered

Db2 Federation Enhancement for Mongo DB

Currently MongoDB Server script has only three fields as part of connection string i.e, . hostname/port and Database name. Current: create server SERVER1 type mongodriver version 4.0 wrapper javatest OPTIONS(host 'hostname',port '27017', dbname 't...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Delivered

Protect any database history entry against automatic pruning/deletion

It would be nice, to be able, to protect recovery history entries against automatic deletion, which are not relevant for recovery: "runstats", "load", and "reorg" for example.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Delivered

Support LOB data types for DB2 BLU

DB2 BLU still doesn't support LOB related data types. Some existing databases in DB2 or other RDBMS, such as Oracle, need to be migrated to DB2 BLU and contain some tables with LOB data types. Without LOB data types support for DB2 BLU, they have ...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration / Data Types 0 Delivered

DB2 Adv Ent Edition with pureScale 11.1.x and InfiniBand support for RHEL 7.6

We are using currently using DB2 Adv Enterprise Edition with pureScale version 11.1.2.2. on RHEL 7.4 kernel and InfiniBand network backbone. We need to upgrade the RHEL 7.4 which is already out of support and RHEL 7.5 being out of support by March...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Delivered

Tiebreak disk as second quorum mecanism for clusters with DB2 + HADR + TSAMP

Customer have some DB2 cluster with HADR and TSAMP. By default this kind of cluster uses network quorum as tiebreaker mechanism. And there is not a secondary mechanism to verify the quorum state of the cluster if any issue affect the gateway or th...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Delivered

Do not overwrite db2setup.log

During installation DB2 writes to db2setup.log. If installation is started a second time the previously created file db2setup.log is overwritten and all the information of the previous install attempts is lost. If installation routine would rename...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Delivered

Support encrypted traffic between Db2 client and Db2 server using TLSv1.3

Latest version of Db2 v11.5.7.0 only has TLSv1.2 support as maximum protocol version to encrypt traffic between Db2 client and Db2 server and even this protocol is disabled by default. By default there are enabled currently insecure protocols TLSv...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 1 Delivered

Add ability to invalidate single plan without flushing entire package cache

I would like the ability to invalidate/flush access plans and performance data for a specific statement from the package cache. It seems like the EXECUTABLE_ID would allow us to uniquely identify an access plan for this purpose. Flushing the entir...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Delivered

Make db2ilist more informative

Since db2ilist lost its ability to display the bitness of instances it was just capable to name all users, who have linked the sqllib directories. db2ilist would be much more useful, if it could show the instance type (server, client, ...) and e.g...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Delivered