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IFCID 172/196 (Deadlock/Timeout) – Add STCK for Held Locks

At IFCID 172/196 (Deadlock/Timestamp) please add a STCK for the held lock (blocker) when the lock was granted. In case of a lockout with this STCK the sequence of the locks, and so the sequence of the blocker-SQLs, can be reconstructed ‘post mor...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Protocol the SQL in SYSPRINT for DSNTIAUL

We often use DSNTIAUL to access data. At the moment you can't see the executed SQL in the job output. If DB2 protocol this it will be very helpfull. Proposal is to write it to SYSPRINT ( default ) and/or controll the output DD via a paramter.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

HPU should accept user defined DSNTYPE on TEMPLATE statement RFE 36361

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=36361 Currently keying any other DSNTYPE than 'LIBRARY', 'PDS', 'HFS' or 'NULL' results in the following error INZT025E TEMPLATE ERROR: INVALID OPERAND LARGE FOR OPTION DSNTY...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DDL Event Triggers

It would be good to have some kind of 'triggers' that's been activated every time when database object such as table or stored procedure is beind modifyed ( created, dropped or changed)It seems to me it could be some kind of system routines simila...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow UDRs run with owner privileges

Create an option to 'create procedure/function' statement allow run with owner privileges (grants/role) instead of the current user (who is calling the UDR). This behave already exists when the procedure is created with DBA , it will run with DBA ...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Consolidate free space across entire chunk or dbspace

I suggest a repack-like tool which consolidates free space in an entire chunk or dbspace in order to get few, big enough, free spaces to use efficiently. Being able to do so online and with little blocking is desirable
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Allow Functions / Expressions to be used with multi row insert

Please allow expressions and or functions to be used within a multi row insert statement. I have an application inserting 1000 rows via multi row insert and the table has the POINTS columns which needs to be populated using the function ST_POINT. ...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide HWM for maxofilr resources

Neeed to record hwm for MAXOFILR We are a heavy user of lob data. With this zparm MAXOFILR we can control how many lob datasets are being used. But I have no way to determine of the zparm is set high or low. When we hit the value - the transaction...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow TRUNCATE on table with users access

As detailed on Informix Manual , the truncate statement is considered DDL and not DML and not allow execute it even if there dirty reads over the table.The request: Allow run the truncate over a table even if there users reading the table.
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DB2 accounting information

We are using the DB2 accounting information as a source for resource usage counts. We use for this purpose the accounting fields described in DSECT DSNDQXST (generated with the macro DSNDQXST). We find counts for the SQL statements SELECT, INSERT,...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration