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Db2

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Data Management Console UI Changes and refresh frequency for real time monitor

The following UI changes will help users to monitor the real time data: a). Add 'rows return' column under Monitor-> Statements-> in-flight executions page as an option column b). to be able to shrink column less than the length of header na...
10 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Db2 load ALLOW READ ACCESS support for column organized table

Currently, if a db2 load is happening on a column organized table, users are NOT able to read the data from same table until the load is finished. It's inconvenience for the customer and its users in their daily operation. Thus, the customer wants...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

In error message display actual table's column name that is violating NOT NULL definition instead of outputing "TBSPACEID=2, TABLEID=5, COLNO=0"

I am constantly running into this problem when inserting null values into not null table column. Getting out tablespaceid, tableid and colno is time consuming and annoying to constantly check the column name that is defined not null, but null valu...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Allow creating allow/deny list of system calls possible by fenced external routines

This will secure the database further from malicious users trying to break out into the host running managed Db2 services on Cloud. This can be done using:1. seccomp() before spawning the db2fmp process and 2. Making more secure SELinux policies f...
10 months ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Allow native support of user-defined collation such as EBCDIC in CREATE DATABASE command

This will allow easy creation of databases on LUW supporting EBCDIC collations which will in-turn allow easy migration for Db2 on z/OS to Db2 LUW. Currently, this is only supported via the user-defined option of sqlecrea() api and a C program has ...
10 months ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Update LASTUSED info for table more frequently

When new table is created, some migration is performed and similar it is pretty important info when object was last accessed. Db2 has LASTUSED, e.g SYSCAT.TABLES.LASTUSED column, but the data in this column can be according to documentation up to ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Protect against DOS when user has password expired

Hi team, recently we had open a support case TS004670019 on https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002TrWNRAA3/1222wd-db2-taking-too-long-to-login We had a situation with an automatic process that got it's password expired and begun failing t...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

ALTER TABLESPACE ... REBALANCE STOP

Currently, ALTER TABLESPACE ... REBALANCE can be augmented with two optional clauses:ALTER TABLESPACE ... REBALANCE SUSPENDALTER TABLESPACE ... REBALANCE RESUME We need ALTER TABLESPACE ... REBALANCE CANCELorALTER TABLESPACE ... REBALANCE STOP I w...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration

Simple Configuration & Health script that reports high-level database metrics

The purpose of a simple Configuration & Health script is to provide DBAs with a high-level view of macro database metrics that could suggest specific areas worthy of further investigation. The report would include these components as follows: ...
10 months ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW - Enhance Trusted Context

We use Trusted Context (TC) to allow connections into a database from IP's configured. However with the move to the cloud, it has become a challenge as the source IP's change dynamically with application restart. We need a TC mechanism to be able ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

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