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Db2 for z/OS

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DB2 Developer Extension for z/OS - add ability to copy and import/export existing connections

Adding a Db2 z/OS connection requires optional parameters for SSL connections which are often missed when setting up the connection. Adding the ability to copy an existing connection would allow a new connection to be set up more quickly. The copy...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Provide one Db2 message to indicate that GRECP and LPL recovery is complete across a Db2 data sharing group.

We use automation to drive our disaster recovery processes to reduce the recovery time and remove human interaction. We have been running into issues with starting software products that require access to Db2 before it has completed GRECP and LPL ...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow RECOVER INDEX BACKOUT YES for index with COPY NO

The RECOVER TABLESPACE with BACKOUT YES is a relatively new recover option. It tells Db2 RECOVER to start with the current state of the tablespace and read the data change log backwards to find all recent changes to the tablespace and undo those c...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Allow FOR SYSTEM TIME ALL

If you have system-period temporal table you can query the table (and it's history table) with a period-specification: FOR SYSTEM TIME AS OF timestamp FOR SYSTEM TIME BETWEEN timestamp AND timestamp FOR SYSTEM TIME FROM timestamp TO timestamp ...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Support for CREATE INDEX DEFER YES DEFINE NO would be very usefull for Spaces with a 'high' number of partitions to avoid timeouts on SYSTSTAB.

When using "CREATE INDEX DEFER YES DEFINE NO", "DEFINE NO" is ignored with SQLCODE 20122 and the VSAM Clusters are created anyway. Doing this for a partitioned index on a partitioned table with lots of partitions (400+) the runtime of CREATE INDEX...
21 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow WITH UR for SET assignment-statement with row-subselect

Allow The WITH isolation level clause for SET assignment-statement with row-subselect. We need to be able to select data into a global array without imposing a share (or any other) lock.
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Make IFI process zIIP eligible

With more and more data being replicated off host, the replication tasks are increasingly using more and more CPU to read the logs. Allowing the IFI read process to be zIIP eligible would help reduce our general purpose CPU consumption. This would...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

SQL Tuning Services and full support of Security mechanism 18

We are about to finish the installation of SQL Tuning Services in our sandbox environment. What we learnt last week from Xuqin Zhao at the IBM lab is that the product currently not fully support Security mechanism 18, especially for db2_authid_R -...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Show DSNT709I also in Joblog of MSTR

If there are several instances of RLF tables, and someone activates a specific instance using the DSN command with the command -START RLIMIT ID=nn, this is currently impossible to trace, or at least very difficult to trace. The START command is on...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

allow CREATE TABLE LIKE another table and propagate table partition limits

Today, it is possible to create a PBG tablespace and then use CREATE TABLE like another table and the new table is in the new ts. CREATE TABLESPACE ZPOLCL IN DDB01P SEGSIZE 64; CREATE TABLE TPOLCL LIKE DBCCLP1.TPOL IN DDB01P.ZPOLCL; If the source...
15 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

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