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Db2

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DB2 LUW version of z/OS Utility Estimator

reference to: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/soo-kim/2025/02/27/introducing-new-db2-utility-reorg-estimation-featu We would like a DB2 LUW version of the z/OS Utility Estimator to help estimate the duration of planned offline table...
3 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

DB2 Community Edition needs to support Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

I receive errors when running the db2prereqcheck ERROR : Requirement not matched. See cat -n of output log file in Additional details ... specific errors: 46 ERROR : Requirement not matched. 114 ERROR : Requirement not matched. 182 ERROR : Require...
3 days ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

DB2 Purescale with Secure Linux Boot on RHEL enabled: should ship already signed IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) kernel modules

Customer needs that Secure boot is enabled and it is not possible in any Purescale Version. We opened case TS018965073 for this issue and said that to be enabled Secureboot means to sign GPFS packages and involve several support teams
2 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Replace a brand new server in a pacemaker cluster

Env ====DB2 V12.1.1 (Special Build 54779) with HADR setting on RHEL V9.4 1) HADR Primary : server-1 2) HADR Standby : server-2 3) A single ESE : server-3 Steps ====1) Config server-1 & server-2 as HADR pair2) Config pacemaker to join server-1 ...
21 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Submitted

licensing for db2connect change

as a small MSP we eventually ran into a situation where a customer wants to test DB2connect for development purposes. Current Licensing requires us to buy or rent DB2connect for all IBM i enabled cores on the particular server which then can be us...
2 months ago in Db2 1 Submitted

Korean Language Support in Database Assistant

Db2 Database Assistant needs to support the Korean language. For Korean customers, it should be able to process natural language in Korean so that the assistant AI chatbot can be effectively utilized, thereby enhancing DBA productivity.
14 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Restore Disk quorum option in DB2 V12 (Available in V11)

Since version 12 there is no option to configure Disk Quorum for PureScale Environment. There are only Majority, and Qdevice quorum, which are not always ideal solutions for even number of members in cluster. Please restore functionality from Vers...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

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...
11 months ago in Db2 1 Submitted

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...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Submitted