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Db2

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Make reducible the tablespace size in pureScale environments

DB2 LUW does not support reducing container file size in the alter tablespace statement as below. •The following clauses are not supported in DB2 pureScale® environments:◦LOWER HIGH WATER MARK◦LOWER HIGH WATER MARK STOP◦REDUCE, unless it ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Delivered

Monitor element, or audit/diagnostic utility, that identifies TLS version of an active DB2 LUW connection (application or session)

We are on the path now to enforcing TLS 1.2 for all SSL at my company. To make it easier for developers, at this point we have enabled TLS 1.2 but are continuing to allow TLS 1.0 and 1.1 database connections. We are hesitant to simply disable TLS ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Delivered

DB2 currently committed semantics available in a pureScale environment

[Background]Customer chose DB2 pureScale as their enterprise-level integrated database and is building four members and two CFs as their pureScale environment. The important keys DB2 pureScale chosen by customer are : - flexible application worklo...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Delivered

Extend Db2 AWS S3 Support to Include Log Archiving

Db2 added support for backup / restore / load copy to / from Amazon S3 and IBM Cloud ObjectStore some time ago. The one thing missing from this as an overall solution is to allow archive logs to be written to object storage, in the same way as the...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Delivered

Support of btrfs on Db2 11.1.3.3 is required

Daimler needs support of btrfs on Db2 11.1 on SLES 12 SP3.result of IBM PMR (Case TS000138704):“Although the DB2 documentation only lists recommended file systems, support for unlisted file system might be limited and there is no guarantee that ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Delivered

Allow configuration to abort Db2 restore if tablespace errors occur

Today, Db2 Restore can continue with a subset of tablespaces if e.g. same tablespaces fail to acquire containers. In the end of roll forward completes, but some tablespaces did not complete and remain in 'storage definition pending' and need to ha...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Delivered

Remove per-tablespace size limitation for v11.1 and v11.5 community edition

Currently if we restore a database backup that was taken on a higher edition of Db2 into Developer-C, it fails with SQL1139N, even if it is fully less than 100GB. There are two workarounds for this: Set a MAX for all table spaces before taking ...

Add bulk insert feature to the Db2 federation

Db2 Federation offers different types of wrappers to transfer data from a source database to a target database. For the federation from Db2 LUW to Oracle we tried the JDBC, NET8 and ODBC wrapper, but all wrappers process the rows one by one. To ge...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 4 Delivered

IBM does not support SSL communications for 2-phase commit (DB2 & MQ)

TS010796788 : DB2 - SSL - Two-Phase commit failures We are mandate to close unsecured connections to DB2 by closing the TCP/IP connections to DB2. However, we are using 2 -phase commit in between MQ and DB2, which looks for TCP channel opened. As ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 4 Delivered

Enable access of hidden columns with federation

Basically, federation is a client application of the data source, so what the database expose to client is seeable for federation. As for the hidden column, it's designed not visible to client, the hidden column is not able to be fetched from the ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Federation 2 Delivered