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blimits command functionality improvements

Affected: Administration and all users. Benefits: Provides clients with greater visibility into job availability and limitations, as well as a more dynamic way to allocate resources. Details: blimits functionality needs to be more encompassing. Gr...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 2 Future consideration

Support for Restricting Specific Command Options with values

Currently, the commands.json configuration supports restricting command options only when they are specified without associated values. It does not support restricting options that include values (e.g., -u all in bjobs). This limitation prevents s...
about 16 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Submitted

Support for User Groups in user Field of esecurity.json

Currently, the user field in the esecurity.json configuration only supports individual usernames and does not allow specifying user groups. This limitation makes it difficult to manage access control efficiently in environments with a large number...
about 16 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Submitted

Rate Limiting Mechanism for LWS

Currently, LWS (LSF Web Services) does not provide a built-in rate limiting mechanism similar to lsfproxyd. In high-load scenarios, where a large number of concurrent requests are sent to LWS, this can lead to performance degradation or service in...
about 16 hours ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow Redirected Recovery from System Level Backups

Currently redirected recovery is not supported for system level backups (SLB's). The Db2 V13 documentation states:"Restore of concurrent copies and system-level backups is not supported; these types of backups are ignored by redirected recovery".A...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Enhance CATMAINT output to show what has been done.

Please enhance the CATMAINT output to actually show what has been done. Currently when we execute CATMAINT to change the catalog level, the following output is produced: DSNU000I 083 15:07:58.39 DSNUGUTC - OUTPUT START FOR UTILITY, UTILID = RELODC...
10 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

ALTER Bufferpool enhancement for 1M page frames

Today it could happen that z/OS converts 1M page frames to 4k page frames due to demand of jobs. If Db2 admin has requested a special amount of LFAREA for 1M frames in SYS1.PARMLIB for a later ALTER BPOOL, this amount could be consumed by the prev...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

LOAD could end with RC=08 when no columns are detailed and lose data after VARCHARs

When a table has a column with varying length (VARCHAR, VARBINARY) and other columns after it, LOAD needs the column description in SYSIN to be loaded correctly, and ends with RC=00 (or RC=04 if remains CopyPend state). But if you forget to explic...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Db2 Connect NULLID packages should be shipped in Db2 zos PTFs for BIND

This is a historic and on-going problem with the design of binding the NULLID packages on Db2 zOS from the Db2 Connect client installer. For high-security mainframe platforms, the Db2 Connect installer will not have authority to bind on a producti...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Please provide a DB2 catalog and directory reorg job in SDSNSAMP.

Please provide a DB2 catalog and directory reorg in job in SDSNSAMP which would contain the appropriate parameters to obtain 85-90% of the maximum performance available from IBM's DB2 Reorg utility. It would be useful for everyone who runs DB2 on ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Under review