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A new command "REBIND QUERY" should be made available.

When packages become invalid due to maintenance activities, they may be rebound when needed. But, when a hint is established by running a "BIND QUERY" command, that bound query may become invalid by these same events. Restoration of that bound que...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 processes such as db2ckpwd and db2wdog run as root

The DB2 processes such as db2ckpwd and db2wdog run as root, which results in elevated system level access by those processes. Since root access is elevated system level access, a malicious user may gain access to other OS level APIs/processes and ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Not under consideration

Properly support MSSQL in Data Discovery

Bank of Thailand have Oracle, Hive, MSSQL, and SAP as their main source. We are trying to sell WKC to make a catalog out of vast different data sources for them. The problem is Data Discovery can only do "shallow sync" of table from MSSQL. The tab...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Avoid Db2 failure even if it got BSDS access initialization failure (BSDS timestamp mismatch)

[Background]- Customer's GRSRNL specifies SYSVSAM in systems exclusion list because they need to share CATALOGs. [Description]Our customer got BSDS Access initialization failure and starting Db2 was failed. Please refer to PMR#55237,615,760.They c...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Allow comments for alternate hierarchies

When bringing in an alternate hierarchy to the view, I'm unable to enter any comments
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

search for strings within the SQL Statements in the SQL Text Column

For us, the web UI is the main interface to interact with Db2 Query Monitor. A functionality should be implemented that makes it possible to search for character strings in the list of displayed sql queries (e.g. search for the table name). The ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Color-coding for exceptions and alerts in web UI

For us, the web UI is the main interface to interact with Db2 Query Monitor. While the ISPF interface implements color-coding for exceptions (yellow) and alerts (red), this is not available in the web UI. For better usability, visibility, and func...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Requesting addition of a Sandbox Commit verification prompt

We are on Planning Analytics 2.0.8 on a Windows 2012 R2 server. We have customers coming in through the tm1web. Have customers asking if there is a way to enable a Verify prompt after user clicks the Commit button in a Sandbox and before it actual...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Invoke the DB2 call-out scripts (COS) for ALL First Occurrence Data Collection (FODC) events

Currently the DB2 call-out scripts (COS) will not be invoked for all ALL First Occurrence Data Collection (FODC) events. For instance the only time that FODC_AppErr% events will invoke the db2cos script is when the condition happens on a sub-agent...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Add new parameter for REORG to designate different access behavior when REORG is in LOG/SWITCH phase

Let's say we have zparm IRLMRWT=15, and we have large tablespace REORG with SHRLEVEL(CHANGE) or (REFERENCE), the elapse time of LOG/SWITCH phase is greater than 15 seconds, this causes a lot of online workload timeout with -911. At that time the t...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration