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Since customers' environment needs to stay updated please make the Db2 11.5.9.0 pureScale for AIX 7.3 TL01 and TL02 certified for Power System 10. We just certified the "AIX 7.3 TL00 SP1 or higher".

It is useful to avoid security breach and avoid OS known bugs.
4 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE CONTINUE after INIT

AMT kann in einem Schritt per MOVE durchgeführt werden oder in einzelnen Phasen - INIT / COPY/ REPLAY und SWAP.Ein z.B. CONTINUE würde feststellen, wie weit der Vorläufer gekommen ist und die restlichen / noch nicht durchgeführten Phasen selbständ...
4 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

Do some more checking when Db2 fixpack is installed - like will fixpack be working after instance upgrade

On my test computer Linux x86_64, Db2 v11.5.8.0 is installed and I decided to upgrade to v11.5.9.0. 1. I checked prerequisite and everything was successful. ./db2prereqcheck -i -s -v 11.5.9.0 2. I installed Db2 server and installation was s...
4 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Add the ability to manually tune DB2_HADR_HANG_DETECTION

Currently DB2_HADR_HANG_DETECTION is set internally and can't be configured. Customer's environments may involve slower responding components and may result in Db2 triggering the hang detection even though the system isn't hung. It would be useful...
4 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Allow parallel offline table reorg of range partitioned tables with non partitioned indexes (NPI)

Offline (classic) table reorgs might still be necessary in certain scenarios and can run for a very long time for huge tables (>24h). It is very hard to find a suitable window in a 24x7 System. Offline table reorgs - which have at least one non...
5 months ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Under review

Future Function (eg EFA) Availability about Db2 pS on AWS

Escalation for future function availability by Aug-2024: 1. Support AWS EFA as pureScale private networking (CF communication) 2. Support AWS io2be(Block Express) as Storage device
5 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Under review

As cloud developer, I need small, easy to install IBM DB drivers for Node.js, Python, Go and more

When developing or working with containerized apps or even serverless technologies like FaaS (Function-as-a-Service), compact container sizes and quick and easy installation of all required components is essential. Contrast that with the big roadb...
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

DMC - Encryption of the AES128 key at rest

In IBM Db2 DMC, For the AES128 encryption key that is used to encrypt all the keystore pwd, DB2 and Service Account credentials, there is a security finding on the Insecure storage of data encryption keys – i.e. the AES128 DEK is stored unencrypte...
5 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Planned for future release

Read On Standby (ROS) Access during Upgrade process LUW

During the version upgrade of Db2 LUW, the standby (ROS enabled) needs to be brought down - during the upgrade: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=udhadrhe-upgrading-db2-servers-in-hadr-environments-without-standby-reinitialization I wou...
5 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

Prompts for all db2 utility cancellations

I have faced this issue at the beginning of my career. When we ran into some issue with utility hung or ran some utility accidentally don’t know when it will be finished and when can we kill that process. If we give a prompt with some information ...
5 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration