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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Db2 for i
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 26, 2017

RELATED IDEAS

Add who created PF and LF members in DSPF command

For security as well as maintenance/cleanup reasons, it would be helpful to know the user name associated with creating members within a physical and/or logical file.


Use Case:

When a duplicate member was present in a control file that is used for End of Day/Week/Month/Year functions, it caused our process to go into a status of message wait (MSGW). Since we run separate EOD functions for the different divisions within our company, we couldn't just remove the member as we could cause another process to fail, and possibly corrupting processes that involve General Ledger, Payable, Receivables, etc. After several hours of trying to investigate who had created this member, we ended up desk checking the many programs that lead up to this error. We found that an OVRDBF was not present to point to the correct member for this particular process. Had we known who had created the member, then we would've found this error in a significantly shorter amount of time.


Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 23, 2021

    IBM does not intend to provide a solution to this request at this time, so it is being closed. The database team has many higher priority requirements, so this request is not likely to be implemented anytime soon.

    There is an alternative approach for accessing this information. If the file is journaled, the creator of the member can be found by looking for the associated F-MC journal entry.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 22, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - IBM i
    Component - Db2 for i
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Power Systems
    Product - IBM i
    Component - System Management
    Operating system - IBM i
    Source - None

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 1, 2017

    This would be a useful modification, albeit a low priority one.

    Recategorized by T Duncan

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 27, 2017

    From my experince I found that it is better not to use multiple members DB Files, other than storing Source Members.

    If You develop an application that is using multi-member DB files, here are the thiing You get stuck:

    1. Logicals: When You create a logical that includes all members, when a new member is added, The logical does not get updated automatically.

    2. Limit of 32 members that a logical is based on.

    3. Limim of 32000 logical members.

    4. SQL does not use members directly.

    Back in the System38 days, IBM was very excited about members, but did not continue to develop it.

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