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Db2

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Builtin function to convert unix timstamps

A lot of applications using unix timestamps (number of seconds since 1970-01-01). For example DMC (Data Management Console) is using this. For DBAs and application developer it would be much easier to have a builtin function to convert this unix t...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 0 Future consideration

Test Shell Button for access by shell

In the Connection Profiles you have to add username and password for accessing Db2. As well there's a button 'Test connection' to test the connection. When you define user defined alerts in your monitoring profile you're able to define sql and she...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Add description of views and columns of SYSCAT schema directly into SYSCAT

Good morning, may I ask You, if it is possible to add comments (SQL comand COMMENT ON ...) into SYSCAT schema views and their columns in future versions of Db2? I mean some extract of documentation ended by HTTP link to the appropriate web documen...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Federation Issue on DB2 ORACLE COMPATIBLE databases when remote is NOT ORACLE COMPATIBLE

When a DB2 Oracle compatible (ORA) is federated against another DB2 DB that is NOT-ORAcle compatible, any select involving char columns results in not pushing down the request to the remote server and transmit the huge amount of records across the...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Single self-contained Windows DLL for .net5/6

With Oracle or Microsoft, we have the possibility to just reference one DLL to get full access to those RDBMS without driver installation. The latest Nuget packages are a nice addition, but publishing a project with VS releases the full clidriver ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

db2ReadLog API looks for pruned log files.

db2ReadLog API tries to read already pruned logs and returns error code SQL1273N with error message "An operation reading the logs on database "****" cannot continue because of a missing log file "S0000012.LOG" on database partition "0" and log st...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 5 Not under consideration

Federation JDBC Wrappre to Cassandra support

Officially support and optimize performance from Federation (Db2 Linux/Unix/Windows) server to Cassandra database Improve data type mappings between Cassandra and Db2. Accessing Cassndra via Federation JDBC wrapper using Cassandra driver from www....
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

DB2 processes such as db2ckpwd and db2wdog run as root

The DB2 processes such as db2ckpwd and db2wdog run as root, which results in elevated system level access by those processes. Since root access is elevated system level access, a malicious user may gain access to other OS level APIs/processes and ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Not under consideration

Lock data partition

Currently it is merely possible to lock a complete table by means of the "lock table" statement. However, for range partitioned tables, it would be beneficial to be able to lock a specific data partition. That is, a statement like: “lock data pa...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Non-recoverable tables list after rollforward

Retrieving list of non-recoverable tables (Tables which undergone load with non recoverable option or not logged operations) from catalog views
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration