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Search results: Db2

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Enabling readonly mode for database or user. (DB2 LUW)

Would like to see a db level and a user level parameter to enable readonly mode at database level or user level. Currently need to run set of statements to achieve this, which makes management difficult. A single statement to enable readonly mode ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Online SSL certificate renewal for Encryption at rest

SSL_KMIP_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE_LABEL change requires instance restart. Can we do this parameter as dynamic online update parameter without any outage to db2 instance.
over 7 years ago in Db2 0

Db2 HADR PEER status enhancement

We would like IBM to look into adding an additional HADR state once the database comes into PEER. In Db2 10.5, there is an additional parameter, STANDBY_RECV_REPLAY_GAP that can hold large amounts of transactions that need to be replayed due to th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

DB2 Certificate Authentication with HSM Support

DB2 certificate authenticated TLS/JDBC connections should be configurable at the client via the standard "DriverManager.getConnection()" mechanism, where parameters are added to indicate that TLS client certificate authentication will be used. It ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Lowering the limit for ACTIVITYTOTALTIME and UOWTOTALTIME

We should be able to trap the transaction that spent more than 10 seconds with a threshold. Can we change the low limit of the parameter ACTIVITYTOTALTIME and UOWTOTALTIME to allow a magnitude of milli second.
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DB2 for z/OS: Ability to Retrieve Output SP Parameters Into Global Variables in Dynamic CALL

Add the ability to retrieve output and inout parameter values into global variables in dynamic stored procedure calls. Need this functionality for DB2 for z/OS. Apparently, it already exists for DB2 LUW.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 8 Future consideration

Suitable Replacement for SNAP_GET_APPL_V95

SNAP_GET_APPL_V95 got introduced with Db2 9.5 but is deprecated in actual versions/releases. MON_GET_CONNECTION is declared as the replacement for this ‘old’ procedure, but the scope of the replacement procedure is different! Thus MON_GET_CONNECTI...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Support S3 Buckets with Object Locks

Db2 already has an integration that supports directly writing/reading to/from to S3 buckets. Unfortunately this integration currently does not support buckets that use object locks. In such a case the following error pops up in the diagnostic log:...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Support federation to Presto using JWT authentication

Customer does not allow user/password authentication to data sources, including Db2 and Presto (watsonx.data). With the help from the labs we managed to configure Presto in watsonx.data to accept JWT authentication; for this an idea has been creat...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Delivered

Improve performance of retrieving large result sets

Performance of Db2 client/server communications in a network environment needs to be significantly increased in cases where large amount of data (100s of MB or more) are being moved between Db2 server and remote client. This needs to be provided n...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration