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Support REORG for DEFINE NO

I have heard, in various IBM presentations (Haakon at IDUG Valencia, John Lyle at CCDB2) talking about Db2 Vnext, the statement "no migration to vnext if you have 6 byte RBA/LRSN or non-UTS tablespaces". This if fine unless you happen to have old ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Functionality already exists

DSN-Command -STA PROFILE GROUP

DSN-Profiles are managed using catalog tables DSN_PROFILE_TABLE and DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES, but are not automatically activated upon insert / update. Instead a DSN-command -STA PROFILE must be executed. In a Db2 datasharing system, I can only have...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Functionality already exists

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11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Functionality already exists

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11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Functionality already exists

DB2 - Correlation Identifier for RACF Access Checks Triggered by DB2 (FASTAUTH)

Description of Current Situation: We recently migrated from Db2 internal authorization to RACF-based Db2 Security using RACF profiles. Functional behavior is correct, but transparent and auditable reporting of Db2 access decisions is currently not...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Functionality already exists

new accounting trace field to indicate if distributed connection was secure or not

We have recently enabled the SECPORT in all our Db2 subsystem. And now it is possible for a distributed client to use the SECPORT (instead of TCPPORT) and establish a secure SSL/TLS connection to the Db2. Great. Ideally, I would like to shut down ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Functionality already exists

New Db2 ZPARM for specifying SMS storage & management classes for FlashCopy image copies

When doing FlashCopy image copies the Db2 utilities create image copies by ADRDSSU and it passes the same SMS storage & management classes as the Db2 spaces.This is not always wanted as the performance and management requirements are in most c...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Functionality already exists

The ability to apply the DB2 Connect Unlimited Licence directly on zOS

It would be useful for DB2 sysprogs to be able to apply the DB2 Connect Unlimited Licence to a database natively on zOS without the need to install the runtime client and run the db2connectactivate utility.
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Functionality already exists

SHUTDOWN DB2 WHEN RACF EXIT FAILURE

After RACF EXIT is abending and failing , DB2 is changing back to Native DB2 Auth checking , If you migrated to RACF exit this can lead to unwanted behavior , we would want a ZPARM or OPTION to make DB2 shutdown if the RACF EXIT is not wokring
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Functionality already exists