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Db2

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Online SSL_SVR_LABEL SSL label change for encryption in transit

Currently to change SSL_SVR_LABEL we have to db2stop/db2start to enact new SSL label. We request that this be done online without the need for db2stop.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Delivered

Provide Federation Server support for Greenplum

Morgan Stanley would like to use Federation Server with Greenplum. They have the ODBC driver working but are concerned about performance with no pushdown. They would like IBM to provide a certified Greenplum Driver
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 1 Delivered

Support of data type "NUMBER" for JDBC wrapper

SQL1823N No data type mapping exists for data type "NUMBER" from Server "xxx" Case TS000096160
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 2 Delivered

New DB2 for LUW Automated Failover Option

DB2 HADR - TSAMP integration. Treat a set of databases on a server, even across DB2 instances, as a unit. If one database has a failure and has to failover then we want all the databases in that unit to failover. And just as important, we want to ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery / pureScale 1 Delivered

PureScale high ports statically defined

We require consistent and specific ports to be used for PureScale inter-member communications. It would be ideal if this can be configurable. Currently PureScale requires us to open all high ports >=1024, as per documentation https://www.ibm.co...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Delivered

Protect any database history entry against automatic pruning/deletion

It would be nice, to be able, to protect recovery history entries against automatic deletion, which are not relevant for recovery: "runstats", "load", and "reorg" for example.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Delivered

SAP HANA support in Federation Server

Enable aeration between DB2 and SAP HANA DB with ODBC and JDBC
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Delivered

Include failure / warning counts in mon_get_pkg_cache_stmt

It's currently not possible to monitor the failure rate of an SQL statement. For example, count of dupkey on INSERT. Likewise for 'soft' errors (warnings) like +100 - row not found on INSERT or DELETE. High rates of these can be a significant drai...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Delivered

Allow Read Only Sharing on HADR while Catalog updates

We are trying to use HADR Read only Sharing to allow ad-hoc query against a 4Tb transactional database. The standby should allow us to reduce the impact of ah-hoc business queries. The application is a vendor supplied document storage and retrieva...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Delivered

Add ability to invalidate single plan without flushing entire package cache

I would like the ability to invalidate/flush access plans and performance data for a specific statement from the package cache. It seems like the EXECUTABLE_ID would allow us to uniquely identify an access plan for this purpose. Flushing the entir...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Delivered