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Db2

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DB2TCP_CLIENT_KEEPALIVE_TIMEOUT doesn't work on Linux

DB2 unable to detect dead network card on server when setting registry variable DB2TCP_CLIENT_KEEPALIVE_TIMEOUT. Since it does not detect the dead network card, this prevents automatic client re-route from starting. Problem is specific to Linux pl...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Not under consideration

Add support for XML and LOB in the ingest utility

Add support for XML and LOB in the ingest utility
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

BLU CDE Online REORG

Currently BLU CDE tables only have the RECLAIM EXTENTS option of REORG enabled. This does not physically move rows and therefore REORG cannot reclaim extents unless 100% of the rows in an extent have been deleted (via deletes or BLU updates). Also...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 5 Future consideration

Re-build synopsis statistics in BLU

Provide a function to rebuild the synopsis table metadata online/offline to improve query performance.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Not under consideration

Performance enhancement for admintabinfo

For example, the customer wants to get the name list for tables which are in load pending status, he may issue a SQL statement "select tabschema,tabname from sysibmadm.admintabinfo where load_status='PENDING'", the statement will execute for a ver...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Future consideration

Need real timestamp in backup images

Customer would like to have the backup image "timestamp" be generated with correlation to the real timestamp.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

To request that DB2 code page conversion table can support HKSCS-2008 for codepage 1375

Per DB2's documentation, DB2 code page conversion table can only support HKSCS-2004 for codepage 1375: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_10.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.nls.doc/doc/r0004565.html?lang=enhttp://www-01.ibm.com/suppor...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Only the instance owner ID should be able to write to the DB2 Audit log even if the write is initiated by another user.

The customer started noticing error messages in the db2diag.log similar to this:--------------------------------------2015-07-29-14.10.05.516702-420 E10504269A1049 LEVEL: Error (OS)PID : 22610026 TID : 1 PROC : db2aud INSTANCE: DB2INST1 NODE : 000...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Tablespace reports rollforward pending after an HADR takeover report success

Banco do Brasil built a DR site and deployed a DB2 Purescale with HADR between these sites.HADR is in peer state. Then customer perform a takeover to switch HADR roles between sites.After the takeover finished successfully we tried to activate the...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

Enable db2dsdriver.cfg for JDBC

Enable db2dsdriver.cfg for JDBC. JDBC parameters should be seen by the JDBC tools.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration