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Disable default WITH GRANT OPTION privileges on user-created objects

Currenty on Db2 LUW / Datawarehouse version 12.1 if an end user has CREATEIN privileges on a schema by a role (Role Based Access Control) then the user gets 7 implicit privileges on that newly created object, WITH GRANT OPTION. The end user can no...
15 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Under review

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...
6 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

System temporality slowness on Db2wh

System temporal tables are part of the type two of slow changing dimensions, this assists in tracking changes that happens on the data by preserving historical accuracy. These tables have two tables, The BASE table and the HISTORY table. When reco...
8 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Under review

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

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

Db2 warehouse on RHEL 8

Currently Db2 warehouse isn't supported on RHEL 8. Our enterprise is upgrading all RHEL servers to version 8 and Db2wh is not compatible. So need IBM's help to provide us with DB2wh build that supports RHEL 8
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Planned for future release

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