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Db2

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Real-time statistics with statistics profile can lead to deadlocks and lock timeouts

DB2 real-time statistics facility honors RUNSTATS options specified in the statistics profile, while performing synchronous statistics collection during statement compilation. If the statistics profile contains ALLOW READ ACCESS option, this can l...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Use trusted logging with db2audit to protect audit data from instance users and root

On Aix there is a trusted logging which can be used by syslog and AIX auditing. It would be nice if db2 can use this as well to store its audit data. At the moment it is written to Audit Data Path. It would be nice if this can be a character mode ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Add an ooption to export column names in the csv file

Add an option to the export utility to include the column names in the del file.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

DB2 to incorporate a feature equivalent to Oracles Flashback(RIMS)

We have an official request from executive management ((John Mikkelsen) for DB2 to incorporate a feature equivalent to Oracles Flashback. Eric Egdorf DB2 LUW Support Verizon Business 719-535-4289 Verizon recently had an outage that they feel could...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Encryption at tablespace level

Allow to encrypt at the tablespace level. Add the encrypt keyword in the create tablespace command
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

DB2 to add support for alter table without going on need for reorg immediately and allow full access (read,write,alter...etc)

After setting compatibility vector to ORA, we expect alter table to not affect read/write access. In our test, we see that after dropping even a single column, table goes in reorg_pending = Y status and we can not use reorg inplace to continue ins...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to recover an individual table

We need the ability to recover an individual table faster. HPU does not work weel on VLDB databases as it does not support pipes and there is no indexing of tables within a TS in a backup image.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Alert user about abnormal tablespaces on standby

In a HADR configuration typically customers use db2pd -hadr on the standby to monitor the state. On the standby if there is a problem with one of the tablespaces it'll be marked invalid and future log records against the tablespace will be skipped...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

db2pd -db option not working with catalog-ed database alias

When using the db2pd command it will not function/work with a catalog-ed database alias as shown below:- /u03/db2inst1>db2pd -db csnxhadr -tablespaces Database CSNXHADR not activated on database member 0 or this database name cannot be found in...
12 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

DB2 CLI driver should include all public Root CA certificates

Our applications connect to DB2 using the CLI driver. For years this was not an issue until the SSL certificate expired on the DB2 server and had to be replaced. The replacement certificate was not signed with the same Root CA packaged with the dr...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

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