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Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS

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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

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

Permanent page display setting in Admin foundation

Within the Admin foundation, there is a setting that allows user to see 10 objects per page by default. Although it is possible to change this setting to show more items, such as 50 objects per page, this preference resets after logging out. We wo...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Granular security for IZP resources.

We need more granular security for UMS resources in the IZP resource class. Today there is IZP.ADMIN* and IZP.SUPER* But we need to be able distinguish between access permissions for different environments. For example, for Production would like s...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Call ALTERED NSP from IDz after ALTER PROCEDURE

Viewing the DDL of a deployed Stored Procedure by right clicking on the DDL and then selecting Open statement in Editor. This process is meant for working with/editing the stored procedure. This method returns the stored procedure text that was us...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 2 Under review

Add Explain Support for Queries with DGTTs

When a query in a program uses a DGTT, there is no access path written to the PLAN_TABLE at bind time, and there is no way to see the potential access paths. There needs to be a way to see those access paths in Administration Foundation. Currently...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Make ROWSET cursors available on the Db2 Server and Client.

assistance with multirow fetch A single FETCH statement can be used to fetch several rows with the Db2 Precompiler and embedded Runtime. Arrays can be given as host variables (and as their indicators) in Db2 ESQL, and when ESQL executes the FETCH ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Not under consideration