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Db2 for z/OS

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Resolve issue where DB2 has an issue with invalid MDSNxx Class profiles created in RACF

IBM Please read the case TS013914362. In summary DB2 created dumps/abends when the RACF administrator deleted permissions to some incorrectly formatted profiles in one of the MDSNxx classes. When the administrator performed the permit delete and i...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Provide better instrumentation for contention between DDL and statement cache

When attempting to execute DDL, it is very difficult to determine what the in-use is, and what in the cache is holding the resource. There needs to be better instrumentation to determine what is blocking successful DDL.
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for Data Studio

Trying to implement Vanguard tokenless two factor authentication on IBM mainframe. When the userid and password are entered; Vanguard sends a RACF passticket via email or text message. The 8 byte passticket is entered in the 'New Password' field t...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Deadlock need to avoid for ALTER TABLE JOB

ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN job should be able to break-in RTS process. Currently, the deadlock may happen between ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN job and CORRELATION-ID=014.RTSTST00. We open CASE TS011962039 for the deadlock. From user point of view, the f...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Delivered

alter tablespace to convert PBG to PBR online

Changing a PBG-tablespace to a PBR one means dropping and recreating the object, involving a number of related tasks such as UNLOAD, LOAD, CHECK asf.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

DB2 REST Services support HTTP OPTIONS call

DB2 support HTTP OPTIONS request. At present DB2 does not recognize the OPTIONS request type. Software stacks now are using security feature that for cross domain HTTP requests they issue the HTTP OPTIONS request first.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add a new DB2 message to note that 85% of the MAXDBAT parm has been hit and when exceeded

We need the ability to know when we are approaching MAXDBAT threshold and when we have exceeded it in real time. Currently our monitoring product can tell us if there are DDF threads being queued in real time, but can not tell us if it is due to h...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

REORG SYSTSCPY not operating correctly with SHRLEVEL CHANGE

When executing reorg shrlevel change against systscpy tablespace, it fails when there is any other utility in system, even stopped. According to explanation from IBm DB2 dev:We have discussed this with development again. It appears that this is mo...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Native Stored Procedure debugging for SQLPL

Hello! This is RFE(request for Enhancement) to deploy IBM DSM for our environment. My company Ford requires to add "Native Stored Procedure" debugging for SQLPL, which is required as high priority to support out business. the second requirement...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Client IP Address from Db2 connect server

We use Db2 Connect as a gateway to access Db2 z/OS. We have several situations where a user connects to Db2 z/OS using an invalid password and the user is revoked. On the Db2 z/OS side, only the Db2 Connect IP (gateway) is registered. I would need...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

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