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Db2 for z/OS

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JSON Indexing on non-inline LOBs

Currently IBM allows the creation of indexes for JSON docs stored in an inline LOB but not a non-inline LOB. We want to make full use of JSON docs in DB2 for zOS. We wanted to avoid having to move more apps to MongoDB.
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Link FLA messages to auto recovery task id

We did a large GRECP recovery test with around 68.000 GBP dependend objects. After restart and the automatic GRECP recovery we see a lot of DSNI025I, DSNI026I, DSNI027I, DSNI028I and DSNI029I messages as expected, but they have no correlation to t...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Display info about stopped Stored Procedure

We have a few Stored procedures that has been stopped intentionally waiting for them to be dropped. We want to keep them in a stopped state for a period of time so that we can be sure no one use them. One example of this is when we rewrite externa...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Expand IFCID 258 to include the last available partition (based on MAXPARTITIONS) of a partitioned table spaces.

IBM already produces IFCID 258 when an extent is taken. Would IBM may consider the expansion into the last available partition to be a noteworthy event or either inform the MAXPARTITION value. So, the percentage of available partitions can be calc...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve INDOUBT thread processing in two-phase commit scenario

Recently we had a pretty severe production outage on an 8-way data sharing group. After resolution of the root cause, WAS and Db2 z were quite slow in recovery. Following the crash, there were dozens of indoubt threads and lots of retained locks a...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Masking function with GRANT per column

Column masking has been great help in managing sensitive data and complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).But today’s solution to know if a user has access to data without masking is to create a Mask using a CASE with SESSION_...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Under review

Improve the usability of the masking function

According to the manual, column masking has incompatibility with some SQL functions that we use a lot. In our environment, we have many abends with SQLCODE = -20478, example: SELECT CASE WHEN ST_EMAIL LIKE 'MARIA%' THEN 'OK' ELSE 'NOT OK' ENDFROM ...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Needs more information

Profiles ; time between DSNT771/2I messages made variable

Currently when a Profile is triggered (warning or exception) DSNT771/2I are issued every 5 minutes as long as exceptions/warnings are met in the timeframe. When an exception is triggered (maximum connections from IP for instance) the issue will oc...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Db2 profiles - Enable monitoring and enforcement of AUTHIDs

Db2 v13 offers new feature of Db2 profiles to support monitoring and enforcement of TLS secure connections. Please add ability to do this at AUTHID level. Some apps and users have converted and we could put in a profile to ensure only secure conne...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Supply RACF Exit IRREVX01 to fail commands against Db2 classes that don't have the proper syntax.

As encountered in Case TS013914362, invalid profiles would not be created that could leave unused records in the RACF data base and also confuse Db2 when RACF notifies Db2 to refresh the cached profiles. All Db2 for z/OS users utilizing RACF could...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration