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Alter PBG to PBR should be possible for tables with LOBs

The statement ALTER PARTITIONING TO PARTITION BY RANGE should be applicable for tables with LOB's. One of the main drivers for us to convert from PBG's to PBR's is that our LOB tablespaces are growing very large. As the base tables usually only co...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

1 Character Password

Admin password can be changed to 1 chacter password from GUi need RFE to port EGO_DISABLE_ADMIN_ACCESS parameter in PAM+default plugin
8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

Support SD_BYPASS_AUTHENTICATION_BY_APPLICATION for Kerberos Enabled Cluster

I just realized that per documentation here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=rw-directly-connecting-recursive-session-spectrum-symphony-session-manager-ssm , SD_BYPASS_AUTHENTICATION_BY_APPLICATION is not supported when we...
4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Under review

Reorg discards with PARTITION range for PBR

we are using PBR with multiple partitions per month. We perform reorg discards with PARTITION range like 1: 4. But discarded data is going to a single file when do the discards with range partition. example: We would like to get the first-part dat...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

For online REORG, create parameter to set RC=4 when DRAIN fails

I am creating a scheduled job to perform regular REORGs of the Db2 Catalog. I am generating a list of catalog objects and feeding it to LISTDEF and then using ITEMERROR,SKIP I am using extremely gentle DRAIN settings...DRAIN_WAIT of 2 or 3 seconds...
9 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

COPY NO Indexes to be recorded in SYSLGRNX

It would be very helpful if ALL indexes are recorded in SYSLGRNX which will then open the possibility for a BACKOUT YES recovery for all TS+IX and avoid a potentially costly and long REBUILD INDEX for some very large tables and when backing out a ...
9 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Non-Sorting, online way to encrypt Db2 Datasets

Currently to encrypt Db2 datasets in an online fashion we use the REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE. For large tablespaces, or well-organized tablespaces, this incurs the cost of reorganizing (sorting mostly) that we would rather not have just to encrypt. We ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Addition to Citi Standard Password length of 12 Characters

As to the previous idea I submitted, please note the following for Citi Password standards that must be implements to Spectrum Symphony user accounts are : Must be a 12 Character password At least 12 characters in length At least 1 uppercase lette...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 7 Future consideration

Citi has a policy of minimum password of 12 Characters

IBM Spectrum Symphony currently accepts a 1-character password, this is not to Citi Standard and does not comply to Citi Security standards. This password length needs to be implemented so the admin user and other users have a minimum password Len...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Future consideration

Rearchitect the colgroup processing to be more granular using multiple sorts as opposed to a single sort or more intelligently avoid the colgroup sort altogether (when possible)

Looking at the job output you sent in, we can see that there are 18 colgroups specified. Based on the current design, we have a single sort for colgroup(s). There are 184310123 rows unloaded The no. of the rows passed to the single dstats s...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration