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Search results: Db2

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DB2 CLI connect to remote database with encrypted password file

The DB2 CLI command line does not provide a way to use an encrypted credentials file to connect remote DB2 databases.The idea is to have a similar solution like the encryped password file for SQL/Q-Replication.The replication tool asnpwd can creat...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Online db encryption at rest

To implement encryption at rest - we have to do backup - restore i.e. outage to application. OUtage can only be avoided in case of HADR setup which is not always the case. This RFE is to bring feature of online db encryption without any outage to ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Encrypted column support being deprecated, what else is available?

With DB2 LUW 11.1 the encrypt and decrypt, decrypt_char, decrypt_bin, etc functions are being deprecated. We already have all of the data encrypted on the disk with the disk subsystem so using an encrypted database does me no good. I need to be ab...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add a way to pre-encrypt db2 user password before adding it in response file to do db2 silent install.

We are OEM customer to provider our user Db2+Cognos installation, we're using db2 silent install with a response file, for now, there is no way (no tools, no command) to encrypt a plain db2 user password so that we can add this encrypted password ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Encryption at tablespace level

Allow to encrypt at the tablespace level. Add the encrypt keyword in the create tablespace command
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Provide support in Db2 native encryption for KMIP 1.2 or higher

DB2 native encryption currently supports KMIP 1.1 where the master key flows (in a secure communication channel) from the centralized keystore to Db2 in order to decrypt the data encryption key. Later versions of KMIP support an alternate approach...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Allow unencrypted password in an SSL conversation

This is a request to align the behavior of DB2 LUW with that of IBM i and DB2 for z/OS when connecting with a DRDA client. With the other 2 platforms, if DRDA is configured to require user/password to be sent encrypted with minimum encryption leve...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Master key rotation in HADR is not in transactional sequence even in SYNC mode

IN Encryption at rest - HADR scenario, master key rotation on primary is not getting shipped to standby immediately (relatively) in SYNC mode. Seems it needs explicit ARCHIVE LOG command to rotation key on standby.
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration
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db2logscan should be able to read native encrypted logs

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The utility db2logscan, which is now bundled with Db2 is not able to read native encrypted logs. So with encrypted logs we cannot estimate the recommended sync settings for HADR.
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

CLONE_SERVER_HOST is the READ ONLY in db2 native encryption with KMIP

The CLONE_SERVER_HOST keysecure server defined in kmip cfg is the READ ONLY server which fails create encrypted database and SHOW MASTER KEY DETAILS commands. Also it is not 100% failover compatible.
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration