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User management auditing

Our auditor is asking questions like 'Can we see that user X is locked or removed from DB2 when he left the company'. There is no way to see a lock date or create or remove dates on account that are created through the web console.
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Enable browsing of "local" XML data

In ADMIN Tool it is possible to browse XML-data from distributed Db2 via Option: DD - Distributed DB2 systems This works, because DRDA protocol does a conversion for data that is not compatible to the local CCSID. When trying this on a local Syste...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

IBM.EntityFrameworkCore driver doesn't support GUID and BOOL data types with using db2 i series v7r1 databases

Hi, We are delevoping .Net Core project with EntityFrameworkCore that working with AS 400 i series Db2 V7R1. We use many data types but when we want to use bbolean or Guid field types Db2 says undefined name for boolean(bit) and Guid (uniqueidenti...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Future consideration

Truncate table partiton

1. many customers expect to truncate a table partition without first detach and then drop, and finaly add a new partition with the same definition as the detached partition, because they may design their range partition as "Jan, Feb, ... Dec" with...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

DB2oC UI logon acceptance user name size greater than 20 characters

DB2oC User Interface is a smart way to access administration roles in a DB2oC instances. DB2oC UI has a limit of 20 (twenty) characters to user name size. In my company, for security purposes, we priorize logon proccess that uses IBMCloud App-ID s...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Support converting non-restricted databases to restricted databases in Db2

There can be legacy databases created with non-restricted mode. However as security policies get stringent there is need to convert these databases into restricted databases. The way to convert currently is to recreate the database from scratch. I...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration

Support for UR requested with column organized tables

Actually we're preparing a new Warehouse on DB2 BLU 11.5.5 on AIX using column organized tables. In an early technical examination we found, that concurrent access under isolation level UR ( reporting application ) and updating the same rows will ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Read access on the database in rollforward pending

Enable to select a table when a database is still in rollforward pending (at the end of a rollforward without the clause stop or complete)
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

autoexplain

Hi, With postreSQL, it is possible to have execution plans of slow statements automatically, without having to run EXPLAIN by hand. Wtih differents formats : text, xml, json, yaml. These plans are generated when a query exceeds a duration, the val...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

db2expln output with XML format.

The db2expln utility provides a plain text file only. Sometimes, OPTPROFILE can be added to tune some terrible SQL. The OPTPROFILE is XML format, but many users is not used to it. If XML format is supported as an option of db2expln then it would ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration