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

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

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

Create online hierarchical DDL command

Currently, we have either the DDL or GEN commands to view the object definition. We would like GEN to be online (currently batch only) or have a new command. The action should produce the data in an online format (temporary dataset) for viewing or...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Run REORG only for ALTERs that placed in AREOR (exclude AREO*) and needed for newly deployed modules (Bind/Rebind) eg DROP COLUMN

Currently, the RUN_REORG_REBUILD option has the following characteristics M = Mandatory. Generate REORG utility statements to remove REORG pending conditions. (only Reorg Pending)A = All relevant. Generate all needed REORG utility statements to fu...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Upgrade the .NET version to compile Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll to 6.0.

The dll Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll is compiled with a .NET Framework version (5.0) that is not LTS and is no longer supported since May 10, 2022. This generates build-time alerts. If you can upgrade to version 6.0, that would be great.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Functionality already exists

day of the week for time based resource plan

As our workload requirement is vastly different between weekday and weekend. it will be great if Symphony supports different time based resource plan according to the day of the week. even better if IBM could expose rest API for us to alter resour...
12 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Functionality already exists

suspend and resume sessions under workload API

Currently we can only do with with either command line tool or admin API. Can we add this to all language specific workload APIs We have receive feedbacks from client this will be a good to have feature directly from the C#, C++ and Java API.
12 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Functionality already exists