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Db2

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Validation of logs stored in Storage Protect (TSM)

Our databases are backed up regulary directly in Storage Protect (aka TSM). Due to the requirements of our auditing department, we need to check Db2 backups and transaction logs regularly to ensure that they are usable in the event of a recovery. ...
29 days ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Need a utility to defragment large tables in a timely fashion when REORG is unable to reclaim space

Large, highly volatile, tables can become heavily fragmented when there is a significant amount of daily delete and insert activity. In some cases, the rows deleted don't leave enough empty space on a page for a REORG to clean up or reclaim that s...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Future consideration

Need the ability to "Import" or "Load" data from CSV file

We have the ability to Export to CSV file, we need the ability to Import from CSV. To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to do this.
4 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration

DB2-LUW: Enable STMM on the HADR Standby

The standby inherits the db parms upon restore. If enabling ROS and running various reports (and other "stuff") on the standby - the memory parms (bufferpools, various heaps, etc) may not be optimal for that workload, but STMM is not altering the ...
4 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

Read On Standby (ROS) Access during Upgrade process LUW

During the version upgrade of Db2 LUW, the standby (ROS enabled) needs to be brought down - during the upgrade: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=udhadrhe-upgrading-db2-servers-in-hadr-environments-without-standby-reinitialization I wou...
5 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery / Installation & Upgrade 0 Future consideration

DMC - Display Fine Grained Access Control (FGAC) values of Column Masks and Row Permissions for each Table

This would be a useful feature to allow DBAs to not have to leave the DMC tool and use a different tool to verify the FGAC items are in place for various tables in a Database. The DSM tool had a Tab FGAC that would display the FGAC values in place...
6 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Create a new authentication plugin for handling OAuth/OpenID protocol

The customer currently uses Kerberos but indents to move to OAuth/OpenID after upgrading from db2 V11.1 to V11.5 or V12
6 months ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration

Limit query for DMC Storage panel to active tables

Limit query scope for storage panel to active tables. Query on a peoplesoft DB takes 53 min whereas limiting scope to active tables (MON_GET_TABLE), it takes < 5 min. On Peoplesoft DB, we have about 65K tables when only 7K are used.
7 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Allow REORG INPLACE and modify REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS on ITC tables

Beginning Db2 v10.5, REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS on ITC tables also implicitly performs sparse extent consolidation before freeing empty extents ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/10.5?topic=enhancements-reorganization-make-table-maintenance-easier ). Ho...
7 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Enhance db2move to use remote LOAD from CLIENT

For migration of on premise Db2 database to a cloud service, the usability of db2move would help a lot.For now you have to use manual LOAD commands to load data for each single table to the Db2 on cloud service.db2move can be used from the on prem...
7 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration