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Make ALTER TABLESPACE and INDEX to new stogroup (and VCAT) controlled by DB2

Changing VCAT fror db2 tableapsces and indexes is is not well supported by DB2. The current process can lead to failures. Example for a INDEX -STOP indexspaceALTER indexspaceUSING STOGROUP stogroup-name-START indexspace REBUILD INDEX indexname If ...
18 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Submitted

Enable Compression for Selected DSNDB06 Tables

There is currently a restriction that prevents table spaces within DSNDB06 from being compressed. It is worth reviewing whether this restriction remains necessary for the SYSUTILITIES, SYSOBJEVENTS, and Real-Time Statistics (RTS) History tables. T...
22 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enhancement to improve Db2 z/OS v13 storage management resilience

We recently experienced some DB2 abends caused by the communication buffer pool being full. A single application consumed most of the buffer space. Currently, the communication buffer pool is 6 gigabytes in size, but there is no way to adjust or m...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Allow Redirected Recovery from System Level Backups

Currently redirected recovery is not supported for system level backups (SLB's). The Db2 V13 documentation states:"Restore of concurrent copies and system-level backups is not supported; these types of backups are ignored by redirected recovery".A...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Simplify REVOKE by REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES and RETAIN OBJECTS

1) REVOKE of old grants is complex due to many things that might not be revokable in the same revoke - if one fails the entire statement fails. Usually privileges are revoked due to a person leaving or moving into different a different role . REVO...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enable SD Auth by pass for Users in an SSO/Kerberos enabled environment

we would like to check if possible that under workload SSO enabled cluster, if we can support AD authentication bypass if user specifying empty string as the user name. 
9 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Db2 Connect NULLID packages should be shipped in Db2 zos PTFs for BIND

This is a historic and on-going problem with the design of binding the NULLID packages on Db2 zOS from the Db2 Connect client installer. For high-security mainframe platforms, the Db2 Connect installer will not have authority to bind on a producti...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Expose a documented, supported and deterministic release mechanism for TaskOutputHandle in the Symphony .NET SDK.

Following up on our discussion under support case TS022160603, we are experiencing high memory usage in our Symphony .NET client. Our testing indicates that the native memory associated with TaskOutputHandle is not released promptly/properly after...
9 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Display CDDS command

We opened both TS022609404 & TS022550954 and had a question on the ability to add a DISPLAY CDDS. We understand there is no current such command, but you can issue a DISPLAY LOG command and get a DSNJ375I message giving the CDDS name and the m...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enhancement to Quiesce utility: RETRY and DRAIN_WAIT.

If there are applications in a shop that are operating under the goal of 24/7 uptime, including tablespaces that support it, (for example, internet customer usability), a QUIESCE utility can fail to drain writers if there are constant threads conn...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review