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Modify Messaging to Clarify Why a Table Is Being Dropped and Recreated

When reading the output from the compare portion of Alter reports, it isn't always clear what part of a change requires a drop and recreate of objects. We are making a change to a column from NOT NULL to WITH DEFAULT NULL, and the wording isn't re...
4 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Remove default grants to PUBLIC on SYSIBM tables

An IBM Db2 Security Health Check audit will identify a SELECT privilege held by PUBLIC on the SYSIBM tables as an issue, with specific concern when the privilege is held on the authorization tables (i.e. SYSIBM.SYS%AUTH%). The IBM Db2 Administrati...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Provide an automate way to alter catalog copies after Db2 catalog changes (CATMAINT)

We using catalog copies in Db2 Administration tool. We have created 7 copies (1 for each day to get one week back). Every night we load data from the Db2 catalog in one of these catalog copies. This works good since years but we looking for a more...
6 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add Date Range to Completed Simulation Result Page

When using the simulation data range of 'server time absolute', you are unable to see what the date range selected was after the simulation completes. You are only able to see the record numbers that were simulated which isn't that useful at times...
3 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

Allow for Altering the Partitioning Columns Through Panels

When altering the columns involved in partitioning a table, several steps must be done which introduces complexity and potential for errors. This is the current provided solution: Do a GEN on the table and save the generated DDL. Adjust the partit...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Retrieve IDAA trace data in background

In Admin Tool you can retrieve trace data for the accelerator using Z;AC and then line command TR. We would prefer to do that using Admin Tool instead of Data Studio. But there is a problem. The process run in foreground mode so the ISPF session i...
11 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Healing of Transactional Records - Data Maintenance / Data Quality

Safer Payments has the capability of healing/fixing masterdata through processing (and optionally curtailing) batch feeds. However, for transactional records there doesn't seem to be a viable approach. This would be required to provide accurate da...
4 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

Improve logging/tracability options of (HTTP) Case actions

Currently when executing case actions the investigator gets no information (UI) that an error might have occured delivering the message. Also the logging of errors within a case audit trail seems only to work for HTTP error codes which are stored ...
about 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Under review

Index query definition does not check if the index attribute has storage enabled leading to query which will never return results

If an index attribute is not stored the index query will never return any data. This can be cause confusion to the user as to why it is not returning data because it is not stored it will never return any result. If a check can be done to exclude ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Under review

Non-disruptive add column not null with no default

Currently, the conversion of a new NOT NULL column without default at the end of a table is done via an UNLOAD / DROP / CREATE / LOAD A content (default) is generated for the column during the unload in order to be able to load this column afterwa...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Delivered