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Db2 for z/OS

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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

Suppport temporal tables in combination with row permission

Row permission should be supported for temporal tables. We use temporal tables to track the history of records. This works. We now like to expand our database to a multitenancy database with security control by row permission. This does not work, ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Support DECFLOAT in COBOL

DECFLOAT was introduced in DB2 9 and has just recently been enhanced to be usable in indexes. However the datatype is not supported in COBOL and FORTRAN and only "tolerated" in REXX (as a DOUBLE and then without NAN, SNAN or INFINITY). As a mainfr...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

RTS history table outside DSNDB06

With DB2 12 new function features, IBM added RTS temporal history option. This is an excellent option, considering we used to perform that manually. Unloading and reloading the STATS into a history table. The new option, creates 2 new tables with ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Autobind retries

We would like in the form of a zparm parameter or as a parameter within a package the ability to have failed autobinds of packages be retried a number of times based on this parameter. We have a routine process that does several alter rotates whic...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Clarify message DSNX905I to distinguish type of DB2 Procedure or Function abend

Allow for automation of rules to identify if a START PROCEDURE or START FUNCTION should be issued to respond to the outage.
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Authorization Switching for ADMIN_COMMAND_DB2 and DSNUTILU

ADMIN_COMMAND_DB2 and execution of DSNUTILU need to have the capability to allow for authorization switching. Our developers and application production support teams need to be able to cancel threads relevant to the jobs they support vs having to ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow more options on -MODIFY TRACE command

We sometimes get clobbered with processes that generate lots of Db2 accounting records to the point where SMF is overwhelmed in collecting/offloading them. We are able to identify the offending authid with our online monitor, but until we can cont...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

new DB2 SQL/DDL > DECLARE (GLOBAL) TEMPORARY VARIABLE

Db2 v11 introduced CREATE VARIABLE. pretty handy... but it must be created in advance. How about a dynamic SQL/DDL equivalent? DECLARE TEMPORARY VARIABLE xyx OR DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY VARIABLE xyz It would be useful for anyone (ie. ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Commit sequence of stored procedure

Change the commit sequence of stored procedures, so all URs are committed in the same order that the stored procedures ended.
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration