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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Db2
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 19, 2014

New privilege for IMPORT into a restrictive database

Granting DATAACCESS authority works but is not a desirable option as the user would get access to all tables. Granting CONTROL or INSERT/SELECT, without DATAACCESS, returns SQL0551N.

As a result customers are left on their own to pursue and figure out the grants required which is not trivial. As an interim fix we've created a technote that describes the required grants (#1645117 ).

There are roughly 20 grants required to enable IMPORT REPLACE in a restrictive database. The purpose of this requirement is to encapsulate all grants into a single new privilege for restrictive databases.

CRM details and discussion https://w3-01.sso.ibm.com/software/servdb/crm/secure/l3PmrRecord1.do?&pmrno=72735&bno=227&cno=000&createDate=O13/05/03&method=retrieveCRMWithDate