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ADB25 - LISTDEF and TEMPLATE tables should be part of the system and not be allow to have DBA decide on the names

Currently DBA can create tables for LISTDEF and TEMPLATES. This can cause each DBA to have a copy of their own table, backup issues since they are created in the temp DB. These tables should be created within DBADMIN. The feature to create them ad...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

More options for PROFILE tables for canceling long runing threads

There isn't any way by db2 to Automatically cancel thread that runing more than x seconds or used more than x cpu. Please add these option and other cancel options to MONITOR THREADS. It is similar to DB24ZOS-I-635 There are many options that toda...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration
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allow DBADM to select on view created by the same DBADM

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Currently if a DBADM has SELECT authority on a table or multiple tables, he/she can create a view under a schema base on those tables, but this DBADM may have no SELECT authority on the view, so SYSADM has to get involved to SET CURRENT SQLID to t...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Q Replication to Kafka Targets

Kafka evolves as a platform for real time data streaming, analytics, and event processing. For enterprise customers the challenge is to let data originating on IBM z flow to Kafka. Popular options are Kafka APIs, MQ, data replication. Only data re...
over 5 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 3 Not under consideration

DBA needs control over Jobs from Automatic Maintenance

We recently had an outage due to automatic maintenance - reorg on a table to reclaim extents. Application A (db2hmon) was running a reorg reclaim on a table and Application B which was already connected to the database and was running a job, as a ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Allow Load To Do Inline Image Copies Of LOB & XML Tablespaces

We have users running the Load utility and we require them to make inline image copies during the Load. We grant these users the LOAD database privilege so they can do loads with inline image copies. We don't grant these users the IMAGCOPY d...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Implement nested loop join of external and indexed tables

We raised a support case for this, but creating here will help it progress. The description was as shown below. Please vote for it! Regards,Doug LawryOninit Consulting Try this in the "stores_demo" database: SET EXPLAIN ON;SELECT {+USE_NL(cust...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Export Dialog as Pretty Table

Export dialog as pretty table so that it can be printed, reviewed, and audited by a third party outside the tooling. For every response, create a row that record the relevant information such as: - which node do this response belong to (i.e. node ...
over 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

QUERY_HASH strangeness

Hi! I am starting to use the new column in SYSPACKSTMT called QUERY_HASH and I have noticed that for different SQL Statement texts I am getting the same hash. I am aware that there is no guarantee of uniqueness but what worries me is that my SQL i...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Create a new partition if a LOB-tablespace gets a new partition in a UTS PBG

Hi Sometime the base-table is very small whereas the corresponding lob-tablespace can get bigger and bigger. So the base tablespace remains at one partition whereas the log tablespace can run against the limit of 255 datasets
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration