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Search results: Db2

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Kerberos authentication - ODBC driver - allow krb5.ini integration similar to JDBC driver for untrusted domains

Currently, JDBC driver allows an untrusted domain to connect to a target domain but providing configuration in a krb5.ini/krb5.conf file as to what the accessible kdc server is and the domain associated to that server. With an ODBC driver, there i...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

External Table USING Options

Need to be able to create external table objects using all the "USING" options when writing to the file. The best example is that (VAR)CHAR type objects need to be written with "quoted" values (e.g., 'ABC",'DEF' written to the file instead of ABC,...
9 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

DB2_FMP_FODC variable needs to be extended to application traps

Failures in DB2 may result in Trap files, by default written to the directory where DIAGPATH is set, usually $HOME. To avoid disk-full conditions, this can be redirected with db2set variables DB2_FODC and DB2_FMP_FODC for most of the FODC traps. H...
over 2 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

index based restore of a table space from backup image file

Want to restore the contents of a tablespace from a backup.
about 5 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Logical Files in QPFRDATA should be secured with AUTL QPMCCDATA

Hi, on IBMi Collection services you have several file in QPFRDATA. Mostly all PF are secured with the AUTL QPMCCDATA. There are also some LF like: QAPMJOBL, QAPMSYSL, and QAPMPOOLL which are secured by AUTL: *NONE. Normally we add our user to the ...
over 2 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...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Percent/Dynamic/Automatic Value for NUM_LOG_SPAN

NUM_LOG_SPAN species a number of log files. If the number of log files changes (LOGPRIMARY, LOGSECONDARY, LOGFILSIZ) the absolute number of NUM_LOG_SPAN should be adjusted as well. If NUM_LOG would be a percent value of the primary log files there...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Db2 PureScale Spectrum Scale Package (GPFS) should include performance sensor and collector package

Dear IBM, in the Spectrum Scale distribution bundled with DB2 pureScale, the binary of mmperfmon is included but the packages for the required sensors and collectors are missing. mmperfmon is needed to identify possible performance bottlenecks wit...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Future consideration

Log Failed LOADS in db history file

Please refer to IBM CASE TS012541333 for further details Db2 database history file registers several SUCCESS and FAILED operations. If a backup has been executed, and if it failed or completed ok . if a restore has been done, and if it failed or c...
over 2 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

DB2 v11.5 Bind File and Package Name List

IBM published a technote "DB2 Bind File and Package Name List" https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21987465 listing all the names of the bind files of the different versions of Db2. It needs to be extended for Db2 11.5
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 7 Not under consideration