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Db2

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Force LOAD COPY location with HADR

LOAD COPY files can go anywhere, but when running HADR, they should only go to a shared location. If they do not, then the tables on the standby will be unavailable on failover. Those doing LOADs may not know or understand the impact of this. Ther...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Increase the maximum allowed size of DB2 V10.5 data types in create nickname

SQL Create Nickname statement returns the following error:SQL0901N The SQL statement failed because of a non-severesystem error. Subsequent SQL statements can be processed. (Reason "Invalid nickname column length". SQLSTATE=58004, SQLCODE=-901, DR...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Audit like DB2 for z/OS in Syslog (SMF-Sätze, Type 100 und 101)

um neuen Compliance-Anforderungen begegnen zu können, sollen alle Datenbanken im laufenden BetriebSecurity- und Statistik-Informationen über Zugriffe liefern. DB2 for z/OS macht dieses über die z/OS System Management Facility (SMF-Sätze, Type ...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements to DB2 Ingest

In DB2 Ingest , need an option to specify that character delimiters are to be parsed as column data, when the data files do not have a character delimiters, like nochardel file type modifier in load.
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

XML Schema 1.1

DB2 PureXML does not support XML Schema Version 1.1, although it would be very useful. XML Schema Version 1.1 goes far to correct numerous inadequacies in XML Schema Version 1.0 for extensibility of data models in order to meet future needs.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

Let a change of a SYS*_GROUP in the dbm cfg be reflected in the db2audit secmaint.del-file next to/instead of in db2diag.log

For security monitoring purposes every 30 minutes our production db2audit-files are archived, extracted and uploaded to a special security server for analysis purposes. However very important information is missing: when changing a SYS*_GROUP, the...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

db will be blocked and hang after mon_heap is run out

agents will be blocked and will hang after mon_heap is run out when database turns on event monitor. Now it is works as design, yet customer hope we can change the design and decouple between event monitor and the agents executing some SQLs. So ag...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Eliminate the restriction of IB and RoCE mixture for db2iupdt in pureScale

We are promoting the Technical Partnership with Huawei in China, and make more customer use DB2 database with Huawei Hardware (FusionServer as High performance computer, and FusionCube as the use-as-box-open). In typical DB2 pureScale configuratio...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Not under consideration

Exclude the DGTT from the objmaint audit

Add an option to exclude the DGTT from the objmaint audit.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add invisible index

Add the possibiltity to set an index as visible or invisible so that, when it is alter as invisible, the optimizer only takes it in account when the session ask for the index
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration