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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

IDAA - Monitoring of the IDAA on IDAA Studio improvements (granularity of the information displayed)

Actual/present: changes captured from the db2 log are always displayed for the whole subscription, as well as the latency. Desirable: Indicators next to each replicated table about latency, amount of changes applied, online/offline status.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Improvements on the IDAA Studio - functionality to clean the history of queries

functionality to clean the history of queries: the cleanup function history queries is available only in the Configuration console;
almost 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Fix timeout errors during pending alter materialization reorgs

We're using DB2 z/OS V10 and tried using pending alter for making online schema change on an SAP table to increase a PBG table's DSSIZE from 4 GB to 64 GB. When we ran the SHRLEVEL CHANGE reorg to implement the pending alter, the reorg caused SAP ...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Alter table that has foreign keys

Abilit to alter tables with foreig keys when referenced tables are opened.
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration