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Db2

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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
6 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 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...
about 5 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Db2 Encryption at Rest breaks backup deduplication

For the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Encryption at Rest is mandatory for many databases. Since we have turned on Encryption at Rest, data deduplication during backups is not working anymore. We always have to save the full 15+ TB...
2 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

IP restrictions for public administrative access (dedicated VPC)

Restricting the devices that can connect from public environments by IP address is a requirement of the customer's security policy and is requested by Japanese customers.This function was implemented in Gen2, but not in Gen3, and this has been poi...
3 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse on Cloud 0 Submitted

Automatic Table Partition Creation and Purging Based on Date Expressions

I propose the addition of a native feature in Db2 LUW for automatic table partition management based on a date or timestamp column. Specifically: Automatic Partition Creation: Allow users to define partitioning expressions (e.g., daily, monthly, y...
5 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

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...
26 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

Copy-on-Write for Namespace Separation/Tenants

With the new namespace separation feature in 12.1, you could end up with a lot of duplicate data. If tenants could be created in a copy-on-write or delta aspect it would allow for each tenant to only consume space for the delta, instead of a full ...
7 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

Ability to perform create indexes on a table in parallel

Typically we need to (re-)create multiple indexe’s on a table. Right now this process has to be performed sequentially - index after index - which can take a very considerable time. We would like to see a feature to able to CREATE multiple INDEXes...
2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

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 ...
7 months ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration