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Db2 for z/OS

staged create index with focus on always on

We would like to create an index in Db2 for z/OS without interruption during ongoing operations. Idea is to get an option during create index to mark this index as "in creation". Such marked index would be ignored during BIND, REBIND and not maint...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Future consideration

Simplify REVOKE by REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES and RETAIN OBJECTS

1) REVOKE of old grants is complex due to many things that might not be revokable in the same revoke - if one fails the entire statement fails. Usually privileges are revoked due to a person leaving or moving into different a different role . REVO...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Future consideration

DSN Systemprofile history of command -STA PROFILE

DSN Systemprofiles are controlled via Catalogtables DSN_PROFILE_TABLE and DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES which have corrosponding history- table. In those history tables, past states of profiles are stored. However, since a profile entry is not activated ...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Future consideration

Match Correlation ID from DIS THREAD with DIS ARCHIVE

We had a problem with a CDC tool because it was reading/requesting Archlogs.With DIS ARCHIVE we could easily identify that it was the CDC tool. With DIS THREAD you could see that there are many different processes coming from that tool.Now you nee...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Future consideration

Issue an appropriate message instead of a dump in case of 00E20015 occurrence

A clear DSN... message indicating the problem ASCB is more helpful than a dump. The asid (in R2) could be already another ASCB, so this is ambiguous. The dump could be supressed in my opinion. We have such a lot of cases in which we are forced to ...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Future consideration

DIS UTIL enhancement for FlashCopy - in COPY as well as in RECOVER

We have converted our copy schedule to FlashCopy. We run 10 jobs in parallel each job have between 500-600 objects in it. The DISPLAY UTILITY does not show the progress of the DFDSS copy. Db2 generates DFDSS commands for 80 datasets, but this is n...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Future consideration

Convert UTS PBG workfile TSs for DGTT or SORT only without DROP/RECREATE

Starting with function level 13508 we can use workfile separation for DGTTs and SORT. We want to prevent that we have to drop and recreate all the existing UTS PBG workfiles which will be by default used for DGTT (USAGE= ). Wouldn't it be possible...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Future consideration

Enable discard reorganizations on catalog history tables.

Enabling historization for certain catalog tables can result in very large tables that can be difficult to purge, particularly if they are in LOCKSIZE ROW and without LOCK ESCALATION, as is the case, for example, with the SYSIBM.SYSTABSPACESTATS_H...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Future consideration

Modify RQSTWLB behavior when JDBC connections use mismatched DDF alias and port combinations

When there are multiple DDF aliases using different ports, it is currently possible to connect to db2 using the wrong port and alias combination. Ideally this connection would terminate with an error instead of connecting, but that may be too sign...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Future consideration

Granular grant-able authorization to allow explaining all statements stored in DSC

Currently there is a requirement to hold at least SQLADM authority to explain statements kept in DSC, and which were executed with a different SQLID. This is security exposure as for such basic action like statement explain it gives the user all t...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Future consideration