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Search results: Db2

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Db2 Encryption at Rest breaks backup deduplication

For the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Encryption at Rest is mandatory for many databases. Since we have turned on Encryption at Rest, data deduplication during backups is not working anymore. We always have to save the full 15+ TB...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Under review

More informative PL SQL compiling output

db2 -td@ -vf sqlpl4ibm.sql CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE TEST4IBM ()LANGUAGE SQLREADS SQL DATANO EXTERNAL ACTIONBEGIN DECLARE var_num_records INT DEFAULT -1; DECLARE var_unused_int INT DEFAULT -1; SELECT COUNT(*) INTO var_num_records FROM db2luw1.em...
25 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Optimize db2advis (recommend indexes) with machine learning (ML) models

Isn’t it possible to use the data model information from machine learning (ML) also for the db2advis (recommend indexes)? The idea is, that db2advis also can use the data model to get new recommended indexes.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Under review

Have option to stop and start the VIP on specific db node when Pacemaker instance is in maintenance mode

We have a customer which uses VIP extensively for in their current environment (TSA/HADR) and have ability to stop, start and move VIP at will.This helps them extensively with near zero downtime during the database refresh process (very frequent p...
12 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

I'd like to be able to push alerts from DMC to my central monitoring teams and tool (SquaredUp in my case). Or get an API to get alerts.

I'm running Data Management Console 3.1.12 to monitor and manage 125 database in our production environment. Today, the only way I found to get database alerts is to schedule a script that reads the alerts from my repository database and puts the ...
11 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review

UNLOAD Utility

The ability to UNLOAD a table (including using SQL) is required. Additionally, the ability to UNLOAD from an image COPY is required. We need the same type of capability that is available in Db2 for z/OS. We copy/migrate (via LOAD) data from one en...
8 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

Generating monitor report by schema name in Data Management Console

When creating monitor reports in DMC, the granularity for reports is the whole database, e.g. reports can be generated only at the database level. If there are several schemas in the same database, the abbility to generate reports at the schema le...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review

REORG Utility

The REORG utility (or a new utility) needs to be redesigned so that concurrent application modifications can continue while the REORG utility is running. This needs to be a TRUE "REORG" such that the data is unloaded in key order and put back in t...
8 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

Switch the "IBM Data Server Client" over to an MSI installer for Windows machines

Currently the installer uses an ancient InstallShield installer that is a nightmare to roll out. It would be nice if it could be transitioned over to an MSI installer because those are easier to uninstall and roll out.
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review

DMC - Encryption of the AES128 key at rest

In IBM Db2 DMC, For the AES128 encryption key that is used to encrypt all the keystore pwd, DB2 and Service Account credentials, there is a security finding on the Insecure storage of data encryption keys – i.e. the AES128 DEK is stored unencrypte...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review