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Db2

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Ability to start/stop Db2 listener without instance restart

During unplanned or planned maintenance work on the database, we need to have the option to quickly block users from connecting remotely on the database. Especially we need to prevent users from implicitly activating the database. Our current work...
18 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

DB2 LUW: Add GnuCOBOL to supported compilers under Linux and Windows

Users of DB2 LUW regularly need to run their COBOL on LUW as well. DB2 LUW offers thje necessary precompiler for EXEC SQL to provide that. Those users previously had to use Micro Focus (now called Rocket COBOL), but have a working alternative in G...
18 days ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Submitted

Db2 should be able to run in OpenShift within the limits of the restricted-v2 SCC

As of today, Db2 requires certain privileged SCC capabilities for running in OpenShift as described in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/12.1?topic=security-manually-creating-scc-service-account-role-role-binding Basically the customer can choose be...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Container 0 Submitted

dmctop should be able to work with pseudo-terminal

dmctop has the limitation that it does not work with pseudo-terminal In new sudo versions the default in /etc/sudores is „use_pty“. This setting is because of a security issue and should not be changed. This means that dmctop does not work togethe...
9 months ago in Db2 1 Submitted

Support for NCOS on Db2 transactional (row tables)

Customers ( Like Zebra ) running on cloud (IAAS ) are incurring huge block storage costs. They can partition and move cold data to object storage and still be queryable from SQL engine.
13 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

DB2 community edition for Ubuntu - Pop!_OS distribution.

I have Linux on my computers and have used Ubuntu 22 and 24, I have had no problem running DB2 community edition 12.1 . But I converted to Ubuntu - Pop!_OS distribution, and the DB2 said it did not recognize my linux distribution. Please make it w...
18 days ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

Simplify Database Migration for Clients Migrating from DB2z to LUW

Background: Clients who are migrating their databases from DB2 on mainframes to LUW, commonly use the ISO8859-1 code set. These clients need to maintain the exact sorting order they had on the mainframe, which utilizes the EBCDIC collating sequenc...
9 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Make Db2 compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux CIS benchmarks

The CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Benchmark v2.0.0 has the following entry: "1.1.2.4.3 Ensure nosuid option set on /var partition (Automated)" Since the db2sshid is installed in /var/db2/db2ssh and especially file db2remssh, which requires setuid...
3 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Support ARM64 Linux

We frequently use ARM64 Linux Docker Containers when we develop python applications on MacOS. The fact that the db2 drivers and subsequently the python packages do not support this makes our development workflow much harder.
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 4 Submitted

COPY bind option to DB2 LUW.

The customer needed to copy packages from the Windows V9.7 database to the AIX V11.5 database. He used the db2move utility to copy the data and would like us to have a tool to copy the COBOL program packages that exist in the DB2 Z/os environment....
about 1 year ago in Db2 2 Submitted