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Db2 for z/OS

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Change RRSAF authentication to use daily update of RACF statistics rather than STAT=NO

Currently those users of the RRSAF authentication to DB/2, one of which is the Oracle Gateway Server ("Oracle HS Agent"). DB/2 uses the RACF macro RACINIT REQUEST=VERIFY,STAT=NO,... to authenticate the userid/password combination. STAT=NO does not...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhance DB2 so that if a racinit fails for a passticket only UserID we see the ICH408I

Please enhance the SAF calls for DB2 for PROTECTED UserIDs that have passticket to omit the ICH408I message if the RACINIT fails
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSNUTILS/U -Writing SYSPR...

DSNUTILS/U does not allow the contents of SYSIBM.SYSPRINT to be externalized. The information is returned only to the caller. A DBA supporting a bulk load initiated from data stage does not have any visibility into the progress of the load or diag...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Error handling in SOAPHTT...

The SOAPHTTPNC and SOAPHTTPNV routines give the invoker a choice, via an LE environment variable setting, of either handling SOAP faults himself (RETURN_ERROR=YES) or have the SOAPHTTPN routine handle the fault (RETURN_ERROR=NO, the default).Both ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ALTER INDEX ADD INCLUDE COLUMN for pk index that also is fk.

Banco do Brasil has a continuos DB2 z/OS performance team that works to improve access path for legacy and new applications and in many cases the DDL "ADD INCLUDE COLUMN " has been used with successful for it but they are facing some cases that is...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Need Ability to REORG a Tablespace Specifying a Logical Partition Range

The customer is defining a partitioned DB2 table as CREATE TABLE TEST.PART_ROLLOVER ( COL_1 CHAR(1) NOT NULL , COL_2 DATE NOT NULL ,PRIMARY KEY (COL_1) ) WITH RESTRICT ON DROP IN TEST.ROLLOVER PARTITION BY ( COL_2 ) ( PARTITION 1 ENDING AT ( '2009...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Dynamically update security exits without having to recycle DB2

We have a situation where customized source code had rebuilt because the original was lost. If we have to make multiple changes to get this to work, we have to recycle DB2 each time which is not practical for a prod environment. Even when insertin...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IFCID 62 change to add creator/owner and timestamp

Add more complete object identification by including Creator/Owner in IFICID 62 DDL notitification API.
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

new IFCID for archive table

Auswertung der Accounting Daten bietet keine Informationen, ob Archiving stattgefunden hat. Der Grund dafür ist, dass die Accounting Trace Daten (IFCID 3) diese Informationen nicht enthalten.Informationen über Tabelle Archivierung werden nur ges...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Alter Database CCSID to UNICODE

The CCSID of a database is only allowed to be ALTERed within the encoding scheme (in this case EBCDIC) and only to/from the euro-equivalent CCSID of the original EBCDIC CCSID. This is a legacy restriction at the design level. After converting all ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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