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Db2

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Method for downgrading FixPack level of Db2 pureScale

In order to downgrade FP level of pureScale, uninstall the product, re-install and recovery from backup are needed.This is time consuming and cannot be done online.Customer want some easy FP fallback method.Most customer plan to FP upgrade with so...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

ONLINE REORG INDEX without logging for HADR

Our Application:24x7. HADR synchronous. LOGINDEXBUILD=ON because of HADR. We have large tables with lots of indexes required for performance reasons. Current problem:We are unable to run online REORG indexes for large tables as this overwhelms our...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Not under consideration

To monitor system resource usage at database level in a pureScale environment

All current monitoring facilities can not meet customer requirements to monitor overall system resource consumed for a specific database, in a database consolidation scenario of pureScale. PMR#: TS000078803
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Echo predicate functinality for sub queries

Issue Statement: Echo predicate is not working properly to eliminate partition and query is taking longer time to complete Filter With Hard Coded date: Query completes in 2 secs , since it is directly hitting the July 31st partition alone SELECT *...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements of db2ReadLog API timeout

IRS Capture is downed due to SQL1015N while db2 Crash recovery is progress, caused by db2readlog API timeout. Need enhancement to avoid capture down abnormally.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Replication 0 Not under consideration

It's not supported to use ASCII and UNICODE tables together (SQL0873N)

Case #000080573 DB2 Z/OS supports multi-codeset objects in one database but LUW does not that. We cannot do JOIN, UNION ALL, or SELECT ~ INSERT between these tables which are all supported in DB2 Z/OS. In addition, DB2 Z/OS has a function like UNI...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

CLONE_SERVER_HOST is the READ ONLY in db2 native encryption with KMIP

The CLONE_SERVER_HOST keysecure server defined in kmip cfg is the READ ONLY server which fails create encrypted database and SHOW MASTER KEY DETAILS commands. Also it is not 100% failover compatible.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Restore with SHOW MASTER KEY DETAILS requires db entry in list db drirectory

To know master key details, SHOW MASTER KEY DETAILS require db entry in list db directory otherwise it creates new entry. To get the details from backup image on production system - requires prod db to be down which is not feasible.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Master key rotation in HADR is not in transactional sequence even in SYNC mode

IN Encryption at rest - HADR scenario, master key rotation on primary is not getting shipped to standby immediately (relatively) in SYNC mode. Seems it needs explicit ARCHIVE LOG command to rotation key on standby.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Mirror LUW Db2 history file

The RFE is to improve database integrity, backup and recovery. Db2 has a "history file" that tracks things such as backups, rollforward, log archive, etc. The history file exists in the database path (DBPATH) directory. There are two history files...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration