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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 2, 2021

Allow specification of Authid under which Federated Tables References are created

DBAs in our organisation gain SYSADM authority via a secondary authid (a RACF Group), and it is that authority that we expect to use when administering the IDAA. However when using internal Db2 security the Create Rference stored procedure to create a Federation reference does not allow you to specify under which authid the create should execute, and Db2 will not automatically check for secondary authids for DDL operations when using Internal Db2 security. This means federated tables can only be created if the DBA has access directly against their userid - which is against site standards.

We need the ability to input to the stored procedure the authid under which the reference table should be created.

This issue affects all users that need to administer Federated tables, and rely on obtaining the necessary authorities via secondary authid's, and use Internal Db2 security.

Needed By Quarter