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Changing partitioning key columns

Most of our tables that are created before DB2 V8 (and even some created later than that) uses the primary key as the partitioning key. The resulting partitioning key therefore consists of many columns, but the significant columns for partitioning...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

JOBSTEP NAME PASSED TO DB2 ACCOUNTING TRACES FOR BATCH JOBS

IN the DB2 accounting trace it is not possible to see the step name for a jcl. that is seen as correlation name. So if the same program is called more than once in the same jcl , it is very hard to guess the step which calls the one with the highe...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow IDAA Exploitation for Spatial Data

Add support to the optimizer to allow spatial customers to exploit the IDAA facilities on Neteeza to pursue spatial analytics with ancillary software such as ESRI under z/OS.
over 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow Additional Predicate Consideration to a Spatial Search for Enhanced Selectivity and Performance

Add support to the spatial index definition/management logic to allow the definition of the ST_POINT spatial index in conjunction with other columns. This very common compound index approach would enhance performance by cutting down on GETPAGES at...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

search with Arabic substring in DB2 on z/OS

The client is connecting from Windows environment on DB2 on z/os. There is a need for the where like '%' predicate operator for most of the applications. The client then needs to search with substring but it is not supported in DB2 on z/Os. which ...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IFCID 62 gives DDL notification on all executions, even ones that fail

The event notification occurs even if the DDL fails. A return code and reason code field would be a good addition to the API
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IFCID 62 change to add creator/owner and timestamp

Add more complete object identification by including Creator/Owner in IFICID 62 DDL notitification API.
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Mapping Z/OS Enclaves to DB2 Threads

We have an application running on Z/linux the application access DB2 on Z/OS through DDF. The application has few threads active in DB2 and we have ENCLAVE active in Z/OS we are trying to map which enclave belongs to which DB2 thread. If we can ge...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow better system wide control over ASUTIME limits

Provide a system wide default ASUTIME value for stored procedures (not NO LIMIT) via a ZPARM parameter. This will allow us to prevent runaway stored procedures (especially those in a tight loop) from running away with the CPU.
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

IFCID 316 needs counter for tablespace scans on user tables only

Customers tool uses QW0316NT that is showen as tablespace scans. This counter does not only include scans on user tables but also on workfiles.. QW0316NT (or STAT_RSCN) intentionally includes scans of all workfiles... not only workfiles used for s...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration