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NX842 hardware accelerated backup and log file compression for PPCLE

NX842 HW accelerated backup and log file compression is available on AIX. Why is it not available on PPCLE. All recent Linux distrubutions has kernel support for accessing this hardware accelerator.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Single self-contained Windows DLL for .net5/6

With Oracle or Microsoft, we have the possibility to just reference one DLL to get full access to those RDBMS without driver installation. The latest Nuget packages are a nice addition, but publishing a project with VS releases the full clidriver ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement regarding the .ftok file and the DB2 instance.

I will suggest the following:1. Let Db2 log a simple message 'The .ftok file is missing, last seen ' when the instance started.2. Also, suggest to execute ~/sqllib/bin/db2ftok or go ahead and execute it
about 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Upload db2 load copy images with db2adutl from filesystem to tsm

Currently using db2adutl only db2 database or tablespace backup images and log files can be moved from a filesystem to TSM using db2adutl. Load copy images cannot be moved using db2adutl. Example: $ db2adutl upload images /loadcopy/DBTEST.4.db2ins...
over 3 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

CDs are referenced frequently in the installer

When installing Db2 with the db2_install command, one has to accept the license, which is normal. However, it refers to a file in a "CD" as distribution media. But I ask myself, how many fixpacks as distributed via CD in these days? I know there a...
over 7 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

Automatically detect and uncompress NX842 compressed files in LOGPATH, OVERFLOWLOGPATH, etc.

Sometimes when after databases using a redirected restore from an online backup or db2inidb from a flash copy we are requested to copy log files from source directly into the target LOGPATH or OVERFLOWLOGPATH so that a roll forward can successfull...
over 4 years ago in Db2 1 Functionality already exists

External Table handle CRLF in data

The EXTERNAL TABLE capability of DB2 Warehouse cannot handle CSV files that contain CRLF characters in the data when the record delimiter is also CRLF. This is a very common, RFC4180 compliant format (see 2.6) that is produced when saving as CSV f...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Update TSAMP License when Db2 License Aplied

On Linux and Unix enviornments you have the ability to install the Db2 Server by installing the latest fix pak and then applying the license file from the Activation download. Unfortunately, when we just did the fix pak install fo Db2 11.1.5.4 and...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Parallelize the logs in the online backup image

If you have a large amount of transaction logs created during an online backup operation, and logs are include in the backup image, at the end of the backup Db2 adds the log files to the backup file. Right now it appears to be a serialized operati...
about 5 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Request to remove duplicate db2readlog API reads of the same log file on scan start

As described in the PMR associated with this request, on first read request by the db2readlog API we see the same log file is requested to be opened 3 times. First retrieve is to map the input LRI to a log file. Second retrieve to convert the inpu...
over 10 years ago in Db2 / Replication 0 Future consideration