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Db2

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DB2 LUW: Db2 utility to back up and restore the permissions and ownership values of Db2 files/directories

Requesting Rproduct improvement for Db2 Linux, Unix and Windows. Problem description: This RFE solves a problem or deficiency within an IBM database product, Db2 Linux, Unix and Windows. The problem is that users (with authority) mistakenly change...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW: Intra-tablespace parallelism

Db2 V9.7 FP2: Intra-tablespace parallelism can reduce elapsed time for backups Starting in Version 9.7 Fix Pack 2, intra-tablespace parallelism was introduced and can be used during backups other than delta and incremental backups. Intra-tablespac...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2

DB2 LUW - Enhance Trusted Context

We use Trusted Context (TC) to allow connections into a database from IP's configured. However with the move to the cloud, it has become a challenge as the source IP's change dynamically with application restart. We need a TC mechanism to be able ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

db2pd command to report exact operation that causes HADR replay only window

Currently only "Replay only window is active" is reported in db2diag.log, but not the detailed information about the operation that causes the replay only window, such as exact DDL, reorg, runstats, and etc. statements.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Include a comment in the backup

It will be great to include a comment each time a backup is executed. The comment value is included in the history file, it only needs to be used by the backup command.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Not under consideration

Database activation should carry separate security authority

ACTIVATE DATABASE should be a separate GRANTed authority.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Catalog command with comment string length 30 chars is too short

Catalog command with comment string limit of 30 chars is too short. The examples in the knowledge center document use longer strings.We use the string to contain our FQDN server names and often the limit enforces us to short names.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

DBA needs control over Jobs from Automatic Maintenance

We recently had an outage due to automatic maintenance - reorg on a table to reclaim extents. Application A (db2hmon) was running a reorg reclaim on a table and Application B which was already connected to the database and was running a job, as a ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

calling sql procedure in triggers in DB2 DPF

in db2 luw with the dpf feature enabled, we're facing with 2 problems when using some statements or calling procedures in triggers : calling a sql compiled procedure (containing DDL statements) doesn't work ; executing DDL statements inside the tr...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Rename table does not execute a drop-create of the foreign keys.

If there are constraints on table, "rename" table results SQL0750. There is no easy way to rename table like other DBMS in Db2.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration