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Db2

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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...
about 2 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...
7 months ago in Db2 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...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 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...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

DB2 Database Server/Container for arm64 linux

Currently the db2 database provided by the community edition only supports the following operating systems/architectures:* Microsoft Windows (x64)* Linux (x64)* Linux (IBM Z)* Linux (Power PC)* IBM AIX This means that running the database on any a...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Container 2 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.
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Under review

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 ...
9 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review

DB2 LUW: Add GnuCOBOL to supported compilers under Linux and Windows

Users of DB2 LUW regularly need to run their COBOL on LUW as well. DB2 LUW offers thje necessary precompiler for EXEC SQL to provide that. Those users previously had to use Micro Focus (now called Rocket COBOL), but have a working alternative in G...
2 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Under review

Have option to stop and start the VIP on specific db node when Pacemaker instance is in maintenance mode

We have a customer which uses VIP extensively for in their current environment (TSA/HADR) and have ability to stop, start and move VIP at will.This helps them extensively with near zero downtime during the database refresh process (very frequent p...
10 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

UNLOAD Utility

The ability to UNLOAD a table (including using SQL) is required. Additionally, the ability to UNLOAD from an image COPY is required. We need the same type of capability that is available in Db2 for z/OS. We copy/migrate (via LOAD) data from one en...
6 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review