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add statistics advisor reports showing missing and obsolete statistics like in Data Studio

both obsolete and missing statistics were clearly visible in the user interface but we are unable to find them anywhere including in the capture query environment output
3 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Ability to show logged in users

Idea added by for Wells Fargo: I am trying to find out if there is a way to determine if there are any active Zowe(2.15)/UMS(PTF6) users signed in before shutting down the mainframe task. I did look around the UI and don't see anything? If there i...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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...
11 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Extend the filed for Temporary Dataset HLQ on the Subsystem Registration UI screen.

Currently the 'Temporary data set HLQ' field on the second page of the Subsystem Registration function is limited to 8 characters. Due to company naming standards this does not allow us enough space to specify an acceptable value for this name to ...
9 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Provide ability to generate DDL related objects

Within Db2 admin foundation you can only generate DDL for the current object. It would be very beneficial to be able to generate DDL for all or some of the related objects - very similar to the Db2 Admin Tool GEN capability. E.g. While looking at ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Requesting Java SE 9 or higher with 64 arch support for IBM Optim 11.7

We are currently using Oracle provided JRE 1.8 32 bit in all of our Optim servers in Linux/Windows. Since Oracle as made all Java/JRE need to have license which needs us to pay license cost for the same. Hence our organization adopted openjdk prov...
6 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Submitted

Restricting access to Db2s within a single UMS install (multitenancy)

We have multiple customers on the same LPAR with separate DB2 subsystems and they should not see other customer systems when using UMS/Admin Foundations/IDAA Admin Services/DevOps etc.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 2

Provide full system symbol support in yaml files and any 'captured' component locations

For some of the yaml file uses, this would aid in deployment and backout where if we could put a system symbol in the 'instance' file names (those created outside SMP/E) so that when we apply a PTF we update the symbol, UMS/ADF (whichever) would t...
4 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Provide for systems symbols in the various field (especially DNS names) on the subsytem registration panel/process

We currently perform monthly BCP testing. in these test, the host name is prepended with information to contact these 'copies'. For everything else this is done by using a system symbol that is normally blank, but in the test environment has a val...
4 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Feature Request – Store Job Schedule Information in Repository Database

We propose that IBM Optim should provide an option to store job schedule definitions directly in the repository database, alongside other metadata. This would allow: - Automatic inclusion of schedules in repository backups. - Easier migration of s...
4 months ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted