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Update SYSMON_GROUP Authority to include privileges needed for db2top (and other monitoring type functions)

Revisit db2top and dcmtop access requirements to identify the basic monitoring features which require privileges above and beyond sysmon_group privileges and update Db2 to have the sysmon_group given all necessary permissions
over 5 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

ADMIN_CMD to support INGEST and INGEST SET

Tech Note describes how to use INGEST via ADMIN_CMD:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22006386 but using INGEST via ADMIN_CMD is not supported by IBM (see TS000004839 and TS000004925). In addition to support INGEST also INGEST SET c...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 2 Not under consideration

BRMS Recovery Report - Missed Objects

We recently had an IBMi system that lost 2 disks in the same RAID set and lost the machine. We had to rebuild from BRMS tape and after the system was made available, users indicated data was incomplete. In researching, it appears there is no easy ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Limit the 'list of tables' to display when using Ranger authorization

We need to limit the list of tables to display to non authorized users when Ranger policy are enabled. We followed the steps described in this article, but it doasn't work when using Ranger to manage users authorizations: https://www.ibm.com/suppo...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

Lock access plan for a query. Prevent the optimizer from changing a plan, once a "good" plan has been determined.

We see cases where a large query runs fine, and something changes the stats, which causes the optimizer to choose a really bad plan. We would like to be able to lock an individual query, and tell the optimizer: "Just use this plan".
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Support for associating files and data sets for COBOL programs that do not have file definitions

In COBOL programs (*1) that realizes file access by calling the subroutines responsible for the access method, there is a restriction that the file name to be accessed cannot be associated with the data set name. It is possible to define the assoc...
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

DB2 should support auto de-activation of (monitoring) connections

Numerous application environments rely on DB2 mechanism of de-activating the database when the last connection terminated. E.g. stopping the application server leads to termination of the DB2 connections, which in turn automatically de-activates t...
about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Improvements for Automatic Runstats

Auto-runstats (AR) is invoked by health monitor on a fixed timer, each timer 7500 seconds (approx . 2 hours) apart. AR consists of "iterations". In each iteration, AR evaluates tables/views one by one. If a table is deemed needing stats, AR will i...
about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Allow for the parallel restore of multiple different db2 tablespaces when Incremental Backups are present

Refer to Case TS000107666 for more info. Allow for the restore of multiple db2 tablespaces in parallel when Incremental Backups are present. Parallel tablespace restore with incremental backups should accommodate: rebuild db restore (with subset o...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

pureScale: Allow to configure more than one instance

Its important to allow more than one instance in Purescale architecture. In the majority of our environments we have DB2 instances segregated by business needs so in case we need some maintenance and a instance restart we have no impact for others...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration