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HTTP requests for Native Db2 REST from catalog navigation

From the catalog navigation in Admin Tool you can invoke a Stored Procedure. It would help us a lot if we could do the same for Native Db2 REST Services. What we want in detail is the possibilty to use HTTP metods GET and POST as line commands fro...
3 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Revoke impact report generated regardless of dependencies

Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS has an option to generate revoke impact report. If there is a dependency on authorisation you are trying to revoke which prevents the revoke, it displays a message (since PH65207): Can't revoke EXECUTE on &...
6 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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...
5 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Bulk configure ODBC data sources and credentials for jobs

Currently, when creating a job, the ODBC data sources and credentials in the "ODBC Data Source" field must be configured individually, which is time-consuming. We would like the ability to select multiple data sources and configure them in bulk (o...
25 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 1 Submitted

Retain separate dataset names used for exporting changes and importing Multi-target changes

The panel for exporting a change always defaults to dataset name EXPORTED.CHANGES. It should retain the dataset name used the last time, like most other panels do. Also, if you export a change, then import the change into a Multi-Target change (wi...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Comprehensive Rollback Solution for IBM FTM Version Upgrades

Currently, when post-upgrade issues such as performance degradation emerge after several days in production, only application components can be reverted easily—leaving clients to navigate database backup and restoration processes manually. Any bac...
7 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 2 Under review

Allow Exclude criteria to be directly specified in ADB2GEN

We are driving automation by dynamically building a list of objects to 'GEN' the DDL for. However we also need to dynamically build a list of objects to exclude. Currently ADB2GEN only allows reference to a pre existing exclude which has to be cre...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

help in the cleaning of package versions

We'd like to have a new ZPARM to limit the max number of version for packages. Once this number is reached a new version replaces the older one. Otherwise a COMMAND like MODIFY to facilitate DBA in housecleaning
about 7 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 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

When we look at some message in OAC screen and exit it, we return to the home screen and not to the message itself or to the screen where the message we last viewed is

Returning from a message should allow you to stay on the same message you were viewing, that is, stay on the screen where you were (by returning, you lose track of which line you were on) , our proposal is to somehow mark the message that was view...
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration