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Db2

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increase DB2 sector size used to write to disks from 512 to 4096

We would like DB2 to use a larger sector size when writing to disks. We uncovered a performance issue when working with DSSD from EMC where to achieve the maximum write throughput a 4096 sector size is required, Db2 currently uses 512 sectors. MS ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Delivered

Support encrypted traffic between Db2 client and Db2 server using TLSv1.3

Latest version of Db2 v11.5.7.0 only has TLSv1.2 support as maximum protocol version to encrypt traffic between Db2 client and Db2 server and even this protocol is disabled by default. By default there are enabled currently insecure protocols TLSv...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 1 Delivered

Checksum values for DB2 Install files in Fix Central and Passport Advantages sites

Vendor supplied checksum values are required to validate the authenticity of the binaries downloaded from the vendor sites.As of now, we do have checksum values for few of the Web, Java components and we do need similar features for DB2 binaries a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Delivered

db2adutl performance

When we are deleting logs in TSM every week, we encounter very poor performance for deleting > 1000 logs for each DB2 partition. There are 131 DB2 partitions. Deleting the same amount of logs with dsmc del . . . . . works much faster. We assume...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Delivered

Python 3.8 and Django 3

Hi We're a Python shop as well as a DB2 shop. We need support for the IBM DB2 driver for Python 3.8. In addition to this, we use Django for our webapps; we develop our own web apps for managing our supercomputers. That being said, as Django 2.2 is...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Delivered

Db2 Connect Support for Java 11

I will build the system in “Java version11”.however, “Db2 Connect” does not support “Java version11”.I hope that “Db2 Connect” will support “Java version11” by 2019/11.Thanks.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 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

Support for Windows 2016 on 10.5

Requesting support for Windows Server 2016 in DB2 ESE 10.5
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Delivered

Position of FIRST FETCH n ROWS is restricted (inconsistent with the behavior of DB2 Z/OS)

- Problem : Position of FIRST FETCH n ROWS is restricted (inconsistent with the behavior of DB2 Z/OS)
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Delivered

Some SQL could trigger the HADR replay-only window, and terminate the connection of the read only appplicationin the standby

SPDB use blow SQL in one of the application. those SQL could trigger the HADR replay-only window, and terminate the connection ot eh read only applicaiton in the standby side. drop table、create table(include PARTITION BY RANGE)、drop indexã...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Delivered