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DB2 LUW support for CentOS 8 Stream

As announced in December of 2020, The CentOS Project has shifted focus from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream. Here are the expected end of life (EOL) dates for CentOS 8release. CentOS Linux 8 EOL: 2021-12-31 Today DB2 11.5.6 is certificated/compatibl...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Future consideration

Adding storage path to specific partition

Recently I faced a problem on a DPF environment. I had raised below case with IBM and seems as of now this is not possible. In DPF environment, how can I add storage path to a specific database partititon? The below command adds the storage path t...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Warehouse 0 Future consideration

Index support for "expression op expression"

In our environment, we have many queries with predicate: "expression op expression". As they don't use indexes they're performing a table scan. We would like DB2 to be able to use indexes to resolve this type of predicate. Examples: SELECT [id], [...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Cant create a db2 service

Can't create a db2 service
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

External Stored Procedure sub modules to be loaded from same path as 'external name;

DB2 supports multiple (in our case development) databases within a db2 Instance and External Stored Procedures (in our case COBOL) can be developed in parallel by using different qualifiers in the external name e.g. alter procedure cxjjp.UIXN01 ex...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

DB2 LOAD/IMPORT should support z/OS

With DB2 Connect you can easily execute DDL from a remote workstation to create/modify existing z/OS DB Objects. However, when you need to delete and recreate tables while keeping the data (and ALTER ist not an option) it is necessary to open a TS...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Automatically detect and uncompress NX842 compressed files in LOGPATH, OVERFLOWLOGPATH, etc.

Sometimes when after databases using a redirected restore from an online backup or db2inidb from a flash copy we are requested to copy log files from source directly into the target LOGPATH or OVERFLOWLOGPATH so that a roll forward can successfull...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Compression 1 Functionality already exists

Extend the configuration control statements for Db2-supplied routines for program DSNTRIN with APPLCOMPAT a

Program DSNTRIN give the ability to pass some configuration control statement for DB2-supplied-routines as per the doc: Configuration control statements for Db2-supplied routines Configuration control statements supply the basic input for the DSNT...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

Call stored procedure from Cobol in SP

I have a Client that previously used this IBM.Data.DB2.iSeries connector, to execute local WEB sessions, they decided to go to the Azure Cloud, the only thing they changed to the SP was the IBM.Data.DB2.Core Connector, with its corresponding chang...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Future consideration

DB2 DMC AVAILABILITY METRIC FOR DPF INSTANCES

DB2 DMC currently does not monitor the availability of DPF instances (with multiple db2 partitions). it only supports single partition databases. we want DMC to report the DB as DOWN when any of the partition in the instance goes down rather than ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration