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Db2 for z/OS

Enhancement to Quiesce utility: RETRY and DRAIN_WAIT.

If there are applications in a shop that are operating under the goal of 24/7 uptime, including tablespaces that support it, (for example, internet customer usability), a QUIESCE utility can fail to drain writers if there are constant threads conn...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Create a PBR table with specified physical partition order

Sometimes it is required to create a copy of an existing table that will exactly match the existing table. And as physical and logical partitions in PBR can be out of order, that includes the existing order of physical partition numbers. CREATE TA...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Request for a new Count authority in Db2

Normally a lot of organisations have production and customer data not visible to the DBA authority without some kind of enhanced access. For quite a few implementations and production support tasks DBAs or even application support staff are only p...
3 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Deactivation of ownership based authorization checking

Currently during the authorization check in DB2 there is a mixture of possible rules giving access to operation/resource one of which is the ownership check. In principle, this is a disturbing part of authorization check from the security administ...
3 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Add New Option MODE(REBIND) support to DSNTIJRT

Please see Case # TS021869500 for complete details. Essentially an IBM-Supplied trigger DSNIBMTS.CONNECTINFOCONSTRAINT is delivered by DSNTIJRT. This object has existed well before Db2 v11. The DSNTIJPE reports (REPORT05 and REPORT06) for Db2 V12,...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Support passthrough-only expressions in native SQL on Db2 for z/OS

It has been asked for before but at the last GUIDE GSE Germany it was once again discussed. The requirement is for some, at least the REGEXP_% ones, of the passthrough-only expressions to be really supported in Db2 for z/OS native. More and more d...
14 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

New Alert for Active Log Dataset Time Span reaching defined Timeframe

There is lots of good instrumentation and documented processes known and available on how to calculate and monitor db2 active and archive log metrics like volumes, log switches and usage thresholds. But each and every customer has to buid their ow...
21 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Enhance DB2 LE Recoverabilty

This issue is related to a recent IBM case. Under certain situations and most likely related to a rare timing issue, the LE environment under which a DB2 stored procedure or function runs could become corrupted due to a possible storage overlay of...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Allow CTEs in EXPLAIN FOR

Currently explain-statements with common table expressions likeEXPLAIN PLAN FOR ( WITH ONE AS (SELECT IBMREQD FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1) SELECT * FROM ONE);fail with message SQL0199N because the WITH is not supported.So EXPLAINing statements with CTEs...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

A identity in the DSN_STATEMENT_CHACHE_TABLE that uniquely identifies a SQL statement

The hash columns, STMT_HASHID2 and QUERY_HASH, in DSN_STATEMENT_CHACHE_TABLE the STMT include prepare attributes, bind parms, package and so on, with the actual SQL statement. We would like to have a identity that is only based on the actual SQL s...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review