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Db2 for z/OS

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Improve ALTER TABLE ROTATE PARTITION

Currently ALTER TABLE ROTATE PARTITION only allows the ENDING value to be a constant, minvalue, or maxvalue. I would suggest adding the ability to generate DATES or TIMESTAMPS so that additional programming is not necessary to generate the ALTER s...
about 17 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

New Function UNHEX

New Function UNHEX (name subject to change/negotiation) We have a system where all CHAR columns are defined FOR BIT DATA. It seemed genius at the time to save a few bytes of data, not realizing the negative impact in future maintainability and in ...
about 11 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Make IFI process zIIP eligible

With more and more data being replicated off host, the replication tasks are increasingly using more and more CPU to read the logs. Allowing the IFI read process to be zIIP eligible would help reduce our general purpose CPU consumption. This would...
8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Call ALTERED NSP from IDz after ALTER PROCEDURE

Viewing the DDL of a deployed Stored Procedure by right clicking on the DDL and then selecting Open statement in Editor. This process is meant for working with/editing the stored procedure. This method returns the stored procedure text that was us...
2 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Show DSNT709I also in Joblog of MSTR

If there are several instances of RLF tables, and someone activates a specific instance using the DSN command with the command -START RLIMIT ID=nn, this is currently impossible to trace, or at least very difficult to trace. The START command is on...
15 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Drop indexes with uniquerule P and C

When a tablespace is converted from PBG to PBR or even PBR-PBG-PBR all indexes become non-partitioned. There will not be a solution to convert non-partitioned indexes to partitioned. Instead IBM point to DB24ZOS-I-553 to create new unique indexes ...
19 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Add auditing to Db2 profile tables

We need a way to determine who/what/when changed something on the profile tables. DSN_PROFILE_TABLE DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES Current tables have timestamp but it's static. Would be nice to have row change timestamp added so we have both insert and u...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

DB2 utility should be protected in case of abend 878 - end of memory

Hello there, This is related to IBM case TS016981605. DB2 was not able to manage correctly 878 abend (end of virtual memory below 16M line). Because of that, we had troubles in our production environment. In this case, IBM suggested to require a "...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Prevent VPSIZE(0) Bufferpool

The idea would be to have a permission or rule in place to prevent an alter bufferpool to VPSIZE(0). As it can cause major problems.
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enhance LOAD to support Load on DATABASE level

We suppose to enhance LOAD utility to allow LOAD DATABASE, intended to create the possibility of loading several or all tables of a database in one step using only one SYSREC file. Background: In the past, using segmented tablespaces, we had the o...
10 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review