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Ability to check storage performance

After moving to the cloud, in particular, managed service a user loses the ability to verify storage performance. There should be a stored procedure that allows such a possibility. Basic metrics, like IOPS, bandwidth, etc. Such a service would bui...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

Clarification on Alter or Modify Time Column in syscat.procedures Admin View/Table

Hi Team, As part of SOX Audit, we were asked to get latest Alter or Modify time of procedures from syscat.procedures view. But only Create_Date column is found and Alter_Time column is not found. We were questioned why the syscat.procedures view d...
10 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 2 Functionality already exists

Avoid potential data loss in time intervals containing PIT ranges

If you want to create REDO SQL for a time interval, and there is a PIT range somewhere in this interval, Log Analysis Tool (LAT) will print this informational message ""ALAA156I: LOG RECS BYPASSED DUE TO PIT RECOVERY". The job will end with "RC=00...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Additional Reminders - Leading to the work

It would be helpful if IBM can send 1-2 additional reminders to the client with relation to Scheduled Maintenance Notification.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted

First of all please include Log Analysis for red hat in your Product pick list. Second, I have successfully implemented role-based access control (RBAC) for Log Analysis. The development team sent me instructions. I would like to see this RBAC in a future release

We operate in a multi-tenant environment. Users do not want to see (or in some cases not permitted to see) events unrelated to their roles. IBM developers have come up with an ingenious way to implement RBAC for Log Analysis.
over 2 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Backup retention up-to 7 years

For databases that require long-term retention of backups for audit purposes, allow for 7 years of retention for database backups. In terms of restore, we expect to restore only from the same Db2 version and the older files are only for audit purp...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Future consideration

How can the objects be reported on when doing a QUIET TIME report using CORRID.

Using Quiet Time to recover objects for a CORRID. The report only has the available quiet times, but not the objects that were updated and need to be recovered. Need to run a summary report to get the objects.
about 5 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 database backup on Google cloud storage

We can utilize Google cloud storage directly for the database backups.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 1 Future consideration

DB2 LUW Audit does not capture failed access attempts on restricted tables

Many customers have restricted tables where very few select users will have read/write access. These tables need to be monitored through various means to report all access attempts on the tables. DB2 audit is able to capture only the successful ac...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 2 Future consideration

Reformat the SYSCOPY Report in INFOM ddname to be a single line instead of two lines

I would also like to see this on one line. Takes up too much vertical space. This would also be more readable with a columnized report. ICTYPE STYPE TTYPE OTYPE DSNUM LDSNUM HDSNUM LOGGED INSTANCE ------ ----- -------- ----- ----- ------ ------ --...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration