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Db2

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Lock data partition

Currently it is merely possible to lock a complete table by means of the "lock table" statement. However, for range partitioned tables, it would be beneficial to be able to lock a specific data partition. That is, a statement like: “lock data pa...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Non-recoverable tables list after rollforward

Retrieving list of non-recoverable tables (Tables which undergone load with non recoverable option or not logged operations) from catalog views
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

db2ReadLog API looks for pruned log files.

db2ReadLog API tries to read already pruned logs and returns error code SQL1273N with error message "An operation reading the logs on database "****" cannot continue because of a missing log file "S0000012.LOG" on database partition "0" and log st...
about 4 years ago in Db2 5 Not under consideration

Federation JDBC Wrappre to Cassandra support

Officially support and optimize performance from Federation (Db2 Linux/Unix/Windows) server to Cassandra database Improve data type mappings between Cassandra and Db2. Accessing Cassndra via Federation JDBC wrapper using Cassandra driver from www....
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

DB2 processes such as db2ckpwd and db2wdog run as root

The DB2 processes such as db2ckpwd and db2wdog run as root, which results in elevated system level access by those processes. Since root access is elevated system level access, a malicious user may gain access to other OS level APIs/processes and ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Not under consideration

Allow a single SMTPE to be used for multiple DIREs

We have a need for IT administrative staff to have 2 profiles. One with lesser permissions for everyday tasks and one with additional monitoring and security. Both profiles need the ability to run the SNDSMTPEMM command form within various applica...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Allow data type ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP in column-organized tables

We need the ability to define columns with data type ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP in our tables so that we can track when the last change was made. Currently we use normal row based tables which allow this but we want to migrate to column based tables. Wh...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration / Data Types 0 Not under consideration

Key rotation of DEK

Facility to rotate DEK in addition to rotation of DMK. Currently db2 does support master key rotation however for banking regulations there is need of facility to rotate the DEK as well.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

two-factor authentication

remove the two-factor authentication from this site.
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Builtin function to convert unix timstamps

A lot of applications using unix timestamps (number of seconds since 1970-01-01). For example DMC (Data Management Console) is using this. For DBAs and application developer it would be much easier to have a builtin function to convert this unix t...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 0 Future consideration