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Db2

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Request for bundling GPFS/Storage Scale 5.2 or later with Db2 pureScale v11.5

Overview We are requesting to bundle GPFS/Storage Scale version 5.2 or later with Db2 pureScale 11.5. Currently, GPFS/Storage Scale 5.1.x is bundled with Db2 pureScale v11.5 Mod9 CSB 58840 or later. However, GPFS/Storage Scale 5.1.x is scheduled t...
20 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 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...
25 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Implementing a DB2 HADR Cluster Solution on AWS with Route53 in Place of Overlay IP.

As outlined in the IBM technote, implementing a DB2 HADR cluster using Overlay IPs presents several constraints. The Overlay IP must be unique within the VPC and on-premises environments and must adhere to the private IP address range specified in...
27 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 2 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...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Under review

Enahncement to DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT setting

Regarding the use of DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT=ON. This env variable will defer memory commitment, asynchronously in the background, for faster completion of ACTIVATE DATABASE. This helps to improve the database activation for large memory systems w...
8 months ago in Db2 1 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...
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

remove restriction "rwx" for others from "/tmp" or location configured by DB2TMPDIR variable

To extra secure the server where DB2 software is installed it is preferred to create directories which don't have write and executable rights for others. On this way it prevents an ordinary user to create scripts on its own and execute them. In th...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Fix "ZRC=0x870F003E=-2029060034=SQLO_QUE_BAD_HANDLE "Bad Queue Handle" - when db2 utility output is piped

This error has been reported since 2014 and still not fixed as of DB2 LUW CSB build level 2503051558 (March 2025 release). You have updated DT236621 as recently as February 2025 and claim this is resolved; but we are at the March 2025 release and ...
19 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 3 Under review

The request is to add Keyed cryptographic hashing on Card details in HDFC Bank Project

Currently some of the Db2 tables which contains CARD details are using hash function for cryptographic purposes. As per updated security policy of HDFC Bank, hashing is not sufficient and we need to do Keyed cryptographic hashing.
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Under review

Optimize db2advis (recommend indexes) with machine learning (ML) models

Isn’t it possible to use the data model information from machine learning (ML) also for the db2advis (recommend indexes)? The idea is, that db2advis also can use the data model to get new recommended indexes.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Under review