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Db2

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Enable 2-Factor Authentication for Remote DB2 LUW Connections

Provide an option within DB2 LUW to require 2-factor authentication using a password composed of a personal PIN plus a token code, provided by a vendor such as RSA.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Avoidance of deadlock error in DB2 partitioning environment

After our customer delete and create the original table of view table with the partitioning environment, deadlock occurs when they access the view table from each partition at the same time.The view table is invalid when the original table is dele...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

DB2 performance - Hash partition table

On the VLDB - Very Large Database environment.DB2 should support hash partition table to improve performance especially pureScale environment.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

DB2 database kill

A database may hang and must be killed and this is currently only possible with db2_kill
over 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server Driver Package Trace requires Local Admin Right

Can you please do an enhancement so that IBM Data Server Driver Package does not require a Local Admin Access to take the trace, just like DB2 Connect before?This is such a pain to have the Local Admin access granted these days. JPMorgan Chase and...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Backup and Log Archive into private Clouds ownCloud/Nextcloud

Backup and Log Archive into a Cloud Storage
over 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Like DB2_LOAD_COPY_NO_OVERRIDE a registry to overrides NONRECOVERABLE Load operations is required.

Like DB2_LOAD_COPY_NO_OVERRIDE a registry is required which overrides NONRECOVERABLE Load operations to a defined value, because for data center operations any Load operation is critical.DB2_LOAD_NONRECOVERABLE_OVERRIDE=COPY YES USE TSM and DB2_LO...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Lock event monitor does not log hex values of prepared statements

When using the lock event monitor to track prepared statements involved in lock timeouts/deadlocks, it was observed that parameter marker values for hex entries are not logged even though the option for history and values is enabled. This works fi...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Knowledge Center Search Issues

The IBM info center (online searchable documentation) has become less and less useful over the years. Documentation on a topic is often fragmented across multiple pages that link to each other. This makes it very difficult to find a piece of infor...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

timeout option for log archiving sessions / db2vend on WINDOWS

We work with DB2 on WINDOWS and an external vendor (EMC Networker) for backups and archive logging. If network or the vendor have a problem, the archive logging forever tries to use the vendor process and in the meantime writes to a FAILARCHPATH o...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration