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Db2

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Upload db2 load copy images with db2adutl from filesystem to tsm

Currently using db2adutl only db2 database or tablespace backup images and log files can be moved from a filesystem to TSM using db2adutl. Load copy images cannot be moved using db2adutl. Example: $ db2adutl upload images /loadcopy/DBTEST.4.db2ins...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 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

ProActive DB Connections Requirements

In the current state where we call the pool.Open() function provided in the go_ibm_db library, it doesn’t establish any connection during the call and only when we execute the query on the provided *DBP(struct) object it creates an actual db conne...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Delivered

Improve Standby Replay Performance

In our environment, the replay on the standy database is not able to keep up with the speed at which the PRIMARY is able to process data. Our replay gaps often exceed 100 GB, and this means that any failover would be delayed. We use HADR for high ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 Delivered

Make the Db2 Server and Client support ROWSET cursors

The Db2 server and client (Db2 Connect) today does not support ROWSET cursors. Support of Multirow Fetch Db2 Precompiler and embedded Runtime support the fetch of multiple rows by using a single FETCH statement. Db2 ESQL enables arrays to be passe...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 5 Delivered

Db2 Federation Enhancement for Mongo DB

Currently MongoDB Server script has only three fields as part of connection string i.e, . hostname/port and Database name. Current: create server SERVER1 type mongodriver version 4.0 wrapper javatest OPTIONS(host 'hostname',port '27017', dbname 't...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Delivered

Clearing a specific Fenced Process

We got a special build in Case TS005866848 for resetting the fenced pool for fmp32 processes. As it now works setting the parameter fenced_pool to zero it marks all fenced processes with state 0x02000010 and then clears them out of the pool. We ne...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Delivered

Enable SSL on restservice wrapper

We are configuring federation setup to Mongo DB using rest service, However authentication is failing as Mongo authentication is enabled with SSL , we couldn't able to configure from Db2 end , due to which connections are failing .
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Delivered

Multifactor Authentication Support for db2connectactivate utility execution on z/OS Db2

We have a large amount of z/OS Db2 workload initiated from remote connections. Initially we used Db2 Connect servers to facilitate those connections but have recently moved to direct connections whicWackage. We use the db2connectactivate utility t...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Delivered

Power9 zlib accelerator for backup and log file compression

Db2 supports NX842 accelerator on AIX. This has some limitation like restoring of such an backup image is only possible on AIX and cannot be combined with AME and AMS and also requires a license key to enable it.Compression and decompression in so...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Delivered