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    Disable default WITH GRANT OPTION privileges on user-created objects

    Currenty on Db2 LUW / Datawarehouse version 12.1 if an end user has CREATEIN privileges on a schema by a role (Role Based Access Control) then the user gets 7 implicit privileges on that newly created object, WITH GRANT OPTION. The end user can no...
    13 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Under review

    System temporality slowness on Db2wh

    System temporal tables are part of the type two of slow changing dimensions, this assists in tracking changes that happens on the data by preserving historical accuracy. These tables have two tables, The BASE table and the HISTORY table. When reco...
    6 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

    IDAA loader SMF type 115 subtype 216 class 5

    We are looking at using the Db2 Analytics Accelerator for our core SMF data . MQ 9.4 has a capability where it collects queue level statistics in SMF115 subtype 216 data. The data collected is the equivalent data of issuing a queue status command....
    3 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 2 Under review

    Db2 warehouse on RHEL 8

    Currently Db2 warehouse isn't supported on RHEL 8. Our enterprise is upgrading all RHEL servers to version 8 and Db2wh is not compatible. So need IBM's help to provide us with DB2wh build that supports RHEL 8
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Planned for future release

    To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

    Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...
    5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Submitted

    DB2 version upgrade readiness check to be introduced in DB2 for z/OS agent

    This request was discussed in Large Systems Update & Db2 Update - Finland on 18/9/2025 to help sysprogs and DBA's with version upgrade readiness check . The agent should help the technicians in a way that target object list along with solution...
    3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Agent / Techzone | Private Beta 0 Submitted

    Db2 Warehouse in CP4D - NFS v4 support

    We are using NFS for Db2 warehouse backups of a Database of 6TB. But doing it with mount nfs v3, no lock option, takes about 3x time that doing it with nfs v4. Doing the backups with nfs v4 works fine in our environment, but in documentation, it s...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

    use IDAA Loader to create a backup of a very large un-partitioned AOT, alternately allow AOTs to be partitioned

    We have a very large table of data which we would like to take off of DB2. We have created an AOT and loaded it from DB2, but we have not been able to create a backup of the AOT. Without a backup we can not remove the table from DB2. This was repo...
    almost 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    The request is to add Keyed cryptographic hashing on Card details in HDFC Bank Project

    Currently some of the Db2 tables which contains CARD details are using hash function for cryptographic purposes. As per updated security policy of HDFC Bank, hashing is not sufficient and we need to do Keyed cryptographic hashing.
    4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 2 Under review

    Improve AOT backup performance

    We're using IDAA loader V 2.1 to run backups for very huge AOTs. When IDAA loader takes a backup from an IDAA AOT it uses SQL multirow fetch to transfer the data from IDAA into a z/OS sequential file. This may work fine for small AOTs. But in our ...
    almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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