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Every logon attempt should be logged with source IP information

Every logon event should be logged and with source IP address. This is for audit purpose, and also for identifying the source host that issues failed attempts.
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 1 Future consideration

[CE] Platform Symphony Management GUI - Solaris Sparc - BBK

We use a Symphony Version 5.0 in a pure Solaris 10 Sparc 64 bit Infrastructure including the Platform Management Console GUI. All used servers are based on Solaris Sparc architectureThe Symphony Grid infrastructure is implemented in two regions --...
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

On main page of WEBGUI, wrong default behavior when sorting by column in symphony apps or ego servcies

If one wants to sort by running tasks by clicking on Task[Running] button, the default result from this sorting is "ascending"instead of ascending. Why would user wants to see 0 running task applications first... The same issue happens in ego serv...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

Request to have app profile level settings to limit number of tasks executed in a persistent service instance

In a large cluster shared by 100's of applications from different LOBs, quite often, the a bad application workload might crash or disable servers by:1) over consumption of system memory2) filling up the root file systems with core files3) etcIn t...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Not under consideration

Improve performance of except statement

Hi, For the first time I had a use for the except statement. It is quite simple: SELECT DISTINCT LOG_PGM FROM BDSTB030_BDSLOG EXCEPT SELECT LOG_PGM FROM BDSTB031_BDSLOG_SLET I want all LOG_PGM from the first table, that is not in the secon...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Status RREPL can be removed via normal start

In DB2 V10, we can do a START RREPL to certify that only a replication product (in our case, qrep) can update the table. It's good, as today we need a trigger in the target table to have this. The problem is that with a single start RW this restri...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Seperation of DB2 latch 24 coutner in EDM pool and prefetch counter

EDM pool latch suspend cannot be recognized in the DB2 statistics latch 24 counter, because suspends for prefetch are also counted in this field. In the DB2 statistics IFCID 001 there are QVLS latch counters, which are reporting the number of susp...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Automation Utility to convert from IBM RACF DB2 External Security to IBM DB2 Internal Security.

We are requesting a DB2 Automation Utility to convert from IBM RACF DB2 External Security to IBM DB2 Internal Security. This utility must be able to do the reverse of the RACF/DB2 Conversion Utility that was used to convert data in DB2 Internal Se...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

log4j upgrade patch from log4j 1.2.14/15 to log4j 1.2.16 for symphony 6.1.1 and symphony 7.2.0.2

log4j 1.2.14 and log4j 1.2.15 is end of life in CITI support, Need log4j upgrade patch from log4j 1.2.14/15 to log4j 1.2.16 to avoid compliance issue. Required this patch on both Symphony 6.1.1 and 7.2.0.2
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 3 Not under consideration

Reduce minimum value for Zparm MAXCONQW from 5 to 0

Our team is wanting to make use of MAXCONQN/MAXCONQW zparms, and they are wanting to have as much control of the values of these zparms as possible. The minimum value of MAXCONQW is 5 seconds, but we are wanting to have values between 0 and 5 for ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration