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Db2

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Make the Db2 jdbc driver available in public Maven repository

Copy of an idea from here: https://ibmcloud.ideas.aha.io/ideas/IDEA-I-2616.One thing I really like about open source databases is that they are so easy to start developing with.In java for example, I can create a project add the maven details for ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Allow modification of column-organized columns

Currently, in column-organized tables you cannot alter or rename columns and you even cannot drop columns. The only allowed operation is to add a column. This renders the column-based-tables pretty useless because in a normal environment, it must ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 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

DB2 should use the HWM value instead of total allocation for restores on AUTO storage dbs

This is general problem for db2 restore with automatic storage environments. The redirected restore requires total space allocated on source DB tablespaces instead of traditional HWM space requirements. This increases the space requirements on the...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

remove all world writable permissions on files and directorys see also 79173

Our Security does not want to see files and directorys which have the world writeable permission set se also fea 79173 PMR is case TS000140222
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

built-in and OLAP functions are not stored in the catalogs hence SPSS modeller is facing challenges fetching

Incompatibility between using Netezza and Db2 products. Both UDFs (User Defined Function) and built-in functions and OLAPs are available in the case of Netezza, but in the case of IIAS (IBM Integrated Analytics System) / Db2 only UDF is available ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Db2 Houskeeping of combination of Snapshot Backups and TSM Backups

At the moment Db2 supports housekeeping of backups by DB configuration parameters rec_his_retent and num_db_backups. These parameters are used by the customer for years for Db2 TSM backups. Both parameters are set to a value of 8 - ensuring more t...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

db2 luw restore to avoid O_SYNC writes on the tablespace containers and perform a final fsync()

db2 luw restore performance is very slow. The problem was identified and recommended solution is to avoid O_SYNC writes on the tablespace containers and perform a final fsync() From: David Sciaraffa Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 6:57 PMTo: R...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 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

Allow values > 100 for MAX_LOG

MAX_LOG specifies if there is a limit to the percentage of the primary log space that a transaction can consume, and what that limit is.The range of the parameter is 0-100 percent of the primary log space. However, there are cases when a value >...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Not under consideration