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Allow customers ability to limit number LOAD utility errors(RIMS)

Customer has situations where LOAD utilities attempt to insert large numbers of duplicate records. This results in the log files filling up and stopping all DB2 requests until the entire LOAD is rolled back. In this customer's case the rollback(s)...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Synchronize HISTORY file with the TSM server object list.(RIMS)

Since the objects on the TSM server are expired remotely, DB2 is not aware of this because the local HISTORY file does not sync with TSM. What we are requesting is a method to synchronize DB2's HISTORY file with the TSM server object list. This wi...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Ability to backup/clone a database across the network (redirected restore)(RIMS)

Verizon needs the capability to issue a set write suspend IO command on database. Get the data to another instance at another location and bring it up. Informix has this ability and Verizon likes it. This is called a redirected restore. Verizon's ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration
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'db2 "ALTER TABLESPACE DATA1_TS no file system caching" on ECKD DASD

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We are trying to 'db2 "ALTER TABLESPACE DATA1_TS no file system caching"' on DB2 LUW 10.5 on RHEL 6.5 on z/VM 6.3 using ECKD DASD for the DB2 data store. When issuing the above command we get: SQL1723N The CREATE TABLESPACE statement or ALTER TABL...
over 10 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

Improve performance of DB2 BLU

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about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

sqldbdir & sqlnodir owned by regular user / Security exposure (RIMS)

PMR 44825,035,649 db2icrt creates a directory ~/sqllib with 775 permissions for a new instance. It does not 'bother' to intially create directories ~/sqllib/sqldbdir, ~/sqllib/sqlnodir and ~/sqllib/sqlgwdir. If dbm cfg is updated with a group for ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DPF IXF Format(RIMS)

On DPF only, you can't Load a multi-partition table from an exported file with an IXF format. We've run into this a couple of times when we had to save off data before dropping/recreating a table. I can understand that there may be something in th...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

db2support enhancement(RIMS)

From Eric Egdorf at Verizon: It would be nice to be able to provide the db2support command with a pmr number and have it automatically upload the support file.
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DB2 to support multiple network interfaces of a system in a HACMP/PowerHA cluster(RIMS)

Background of this requirement is the issue with db2nodes.cfg having IP/hostname defined different from the systems hostname, which is common definition for many customers in HACMP or PowerHA cluster. Db2nodes.cfg for the database instance gets it...
over 10 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

DB2 should check if there are any errors in the history file for(RIMS)

Headline cont... the relevant backup before the restore operation is started Description: Customer canceled/aborted a backup (kill against the vendor process) of his database after some hours (the reason is not relevant for this problem). The inco...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration