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Db2

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Restore Disk quorum option in DB2 V12 (Available in V11)

Since version 12 there is no option to configure Disk Quorum for PureScale Environment. There are only Majority, and Qdevice quorum, which are not always ideal solutions for even number of members in cluster. Please restore functionality from Vers...
1 day ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Capability of choosing a character set other than UTF8 on Db2 SaaS(IBM Cloud)

Users created and are running the database with a character set of "S-JIS" at on-premise DB2 environment. They'd like to migrate DB2 on-premise into Db2 SaaS(IBM Cloud)But users can NOT select the character set other than UTF8 on Db2 SaaS. If they...
about 2 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Provide UPSERT avoiding DUPREC

While MERGE can be used to emulate UPSERT, it is possible that MERGE fails with DUPREC if 2 UPSERTs implemented using MERGE try to INSERT the same row.The condition might be false and both try to INSERT. One succeeds and the other fails with DUPRE...
about 21 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 0 Submitted

DB2 Purescale with Secure Linux Boot on RHEL enabled: should ship already signed IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) kernel modules

Customer needs that Secure boot is enabled and it is not possible in any Purescale Version. We opened case TS018965073 for this issue and said that to be enabled Secureboot means to sign GPFS packages and involve several support teams
29 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

licensing for db2connect change

as a small MSP we eventually ran into a situation where a customer wants to test DB2connect for development purposes. Current Licensing requires us to buy or rent DB2connect for all IBM i enabled cores on the particular server which then can be us...
24 days ago in Db2 1 Submitted

To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...
4 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

Rajiv Kumar

We have 4 appliance in our environment and all these 4 appliance has same hostname inside container. In appliance DB2 backup is configured through EMC Networker so whenever we are taking backup of DB2. Backup is getting initiated with same hostnam...
4 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

remove restriction "rwx" for others from "/tmp" or location configured by DB2TMPDIR variable

To extra secure the server where DB2 software is installed it is preferred to create directories which don't have write and executable rights for others. On this way it prevents an ordinary user to create scripts on its own and execute them. In th...
23 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted
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Reorg Utility Progress data is missing in db2 list utilities and db2 list utilities show detail command

The db2 list utilties and db2 list utilities show detail command will not display the Reorg utility progress. 1) The command will display the Runstats progress details for the table 2) The command will display the Load progress details for the tab...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 73 Not under consideration

Ability to flush or clean up catalog cache

Larger catalog-related changes, like revoking privileges from many users at the same time, are also updating the catalog cache. The cache may hold invalidated or "orphaned" entries. Those entries are only removed in an asynchronous fashion. Until ...
8 months ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration