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Bulk move of object types and it's descendants

Current Situation:Currently there is no way we can perform bulk move of objects in the event of organizational changes OOB. Proposed Enhancement:We suggest to product to create an OOB functionality to perform bulk update and move of objects intuit...
3 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

UNLOAD Utility

The ability to UNLOAD a table (including using SQL) is required. Additionally, the ability to UNLOAD from an image COPY is required. We need the same type of capability that is available in Db2 for z/OS. We copy/migrate (via LOAD) data from one en...
3 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

REORG Utility

The REORG utility (or a new utility) needs to be redesigned so that concurrent application modifications can continue while the REORG utility is running. This needs to be a TRUE "REORG" such that the data is unloaded in key order and put back in t...
3 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

IDAA - Db2 Accelerator for z/OS - MFA implementation similar to HMA (HMC)

Regulatory requirements are requiring our organization to work with all vendors and try and have all products and tooling that requires logon and password to be MFA compliant. Recently we implemented IDAA on Linux One and our IDAA and Hardware tea...
3 days ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow application to decide what to do when a timeout occurs (-911 vs. -913)

In time-critical processes, it can be important to be able to react to timeout conditions in Db2. In Db2 V13, there is new functionality that allows an application to override the default timeout setting (the CURRENT LOCK TIMEOUT special register)...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

IIDR CDC for Db2 for zOS Remote Source instance creation issue

During the CDC installation process, where the ./dmconfigurets tool is used, there are some options that can be entered as input, although they are quite limited. The need is to make the tool as flexible as possible and, allowing it to change the ...
5 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Enahncement to DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT setting

Regarding the use of DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT=ON. This env variable will defer memory commitment, asynchronously in the background, for faster completion of ACTIVATE DATABASE. This helps to improve the database activation for large memory systems w...
about 1 month ago in Db2 1 Under review

Db2 Developer Extension - Native Stored Procedure (NSP) edit in place, run and deploy from catalog listing

Currently to edit a native stored procedure, you have to make a copy of it and put it in a new file. We would like it to work like Data Studio where you can display the stored procedure in Data Source Explorer, right click and open with routine ed...
15 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Accept and generate RACF Identity Tokens for authentication

If QWT and SQL Tuning Services could generate RACF Identity Tokens (IDT), then the generated token could be used with other z/OS components that support RACF IDTs such as Db2 for z/OS. This would benefit remotely pipelines that want to use protect...
8 days ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 0 Under review

Accept and generate RACF Identity Tokens for authentication

If Db2 Admin Foundation could generate RACF Identity Tokens (IDT), then the generated token could be used with other z/OS components that support RACF IDTs such as Db2 for z/OS. This would benefit remotely pipelines that want to use protected user...
8 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted