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Db2 for z/OS

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DB2 IFCID fields too small to accomodate data

As described in PMR 46301,820,820 the following fileds in DB2 needs to be changed to handle binary overflow which is common on customer installation:- Number of getpage requests. F QBACGET- The number of requests to lock a resource. F QTXALOCK - T...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Alter IX / TS page size at individual partition level

For MSOR application: For very large TS / IX with thousands of partitions, deployed in a 24 x 7 environment, the restriction of having to alter page size at the TS / IX level rather than by individual partitions is unrealistic for customers. The c...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Index-Only tables

request, xref MR1113081118 For a table where all columns are used in the primary index, allow only the index definition rather than having to define tablespace and indexspace, or have the table use an index access like process, rather than a table...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 z/OS v10 - Change the ALTER native_SQL_proc REGENERATE statement to accept APRETAINDUP, APREUSE, and APCOMPARE options.

This change needs to be made so customers can REGENERATE NSPs in DB2 Version 10 for VSCR and potential CPU savings without changing access paths. Furthermore, the same reasons used to justify adding APRETAINDUP, APREUSE, and APCOMPARE options to t...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ODBC connections to z/DB2 should be z/IIP offloaded like JDBC

ODBC connections to DB2 should be offloadable to z/IIP engines in the same way that JDBC connections are. It seems that ODBC has been left behind in this way. This would enhance the abilities of IBM products like FTM on the z platform.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

SQLCODE -327 reporting

SQLCA and GET DIAGNOSTICS do not include the impacted table name when reporting SQLCODE -327. The table experiencing the issue has to be found in the subsystem... manually.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Temporal Logical Transactions - code transparency

Temporal support for system time is being enhanced in DB2 12 to support logical transactions. However the implementation chosen requires that applications that will explore this feature is being recoded.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add EXPLAINABLE column to DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE

Currently, some unEXPLAINable statements are captured into DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE when user does EXPLAIN STMTCACHE ALL. e.g. UPDATE / DELETE statement with positional update:UPDATE T1 set C1=? WHERE CURRENT OF CURSOR001; It would be nice if the...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

"INDEX ONLY" index scan should be used instead of tablespace scan when it performs better.

We were analyzing the optimization of the following query: SELECT MAX(A.COL1) FROM MY_TABLE A WHERE A.COL2= ? WITH UR ; There is an index that exists for MY_TABLE that has a first column of COL1 and a second column of COL2. DB2 was using a tablesp...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Implement XQuery functions present in DB2 LUW but missing in DB2 for z/OS

Quite a lot of XQuery functions that are implemented in DB2 LUW, are missing in DB2 for z/OS. Many of them are very useful, and should be implemented in DB2 for z/OS as well. Here is the complete list (39 functions). We are specifically missing th...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration