Security enhancements
Db2 11.5.8 provides enhanced security when establishing Transport Layer Securiity (TLS, formerly SSL) connections.
Attention: This mod pack release is currently available for
the following Db2 products:
- Db2 on-premises
- The single container deployments of Db2 Warehouse and IBM Integrated Analytics System (IIAS).
- The container micro-service deployment of Db2 on Red Hat OpenShift, the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), and the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Db2 for cloud service providers
- Db2 on Cloud
- Db2 Warehouse on Cloud
Table 1 displays a list of security enhancements in Db2
11.5.8:
| Enhancement | Description |
|---|---|
| TLS 1.3 now supported. | With the release of Db2 11.5.8, Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 is now supported for secure client-server communication. For more information, see First steps in enabling TLS in Db2 servers and clients. |
| New MON_GET_CONNECTION(_DETAILS) metrics CONNECT_SEC_TYPE, CONNECT_CIPHER_SPEC, SSL_SRV_CERT_LABEL and SSL_SRV_CERT_FINGERPRINT | New columns are now available to the MON_GET_CONNECTION(_DETAILS) table function, to provide users with SSL related information for established connections. For more information, see MON_GET_CONNECTION table function. |