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Db2 for z/OS

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To add a built in REVERSE( ) function in the SQL of DB2

CCB want to add an build-in REVERSE( ) function in the SQL of DB2 for z/OS. There is an alternative way of using UDF, but customer worry about it's perfromance, they prefer to add an build-in REVERSE( ) function in SQL. The REVERSE function is use...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

TIMESTAMP (6) WITHOUT TIME ZONE NOT NULL GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP - allow ALTER to be able to change GENERATE ALWAY/DEFAULT

TIMESTAMP (6) WITHOUT TIME ZONE NOT NULL GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP - allow ALTER to be able to change GENERATE ALWAY/DEFAULT
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Use OPTHINT for package with version

Db2 uses the following PLAN_TABLE columns when matching rows that specify access paths to SQL statements: QUERYNO , APPLNAME , PROGNAME , VERSION , COLLID , OPTHINT If I use PKGVERSION(AUTO) during precompile I need to change my OPTHINT every time...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Allow the setting of a global option make LOAD jobs fail if a PRESORT cannot be performed

UET will be withdrawn from support next year and its use needs to be removed. To do this the newly provided support for the PRESORT keyword in the LOAD utility needs to be the same and consistent as the functionality that UET provided for PRESORT....
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add support for PDS input files to PRESORT in LOAD

The Utilities Enhancement Tool (UET) provides support for the PRESORT keyword for LOAD. It will sort the input file and pass it to LOAD to perform the LOAD. It will accept the input file as being a PDS and perform a PRESORT. UET will be withdrawn ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 should optimize queries adequately when are missing or out of date

In V12 it was intended to extend the NPGTHRSH to empty tables and to tables with missing stats. The idea was to pick up the appropriate index which means: if a sort can be avoided choose this one, otherwise pick up the index, which has the most ma...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Usability improvement of IGNORE OPTION of DB2 LOAD

DBAs can decide to tolerate and ignore certain categories of errors and violations in LOAD processing by specifying the IGNORE keyword . Nevertheless, the SYSOUT of the LOAD with the IGNORE keyword specified, provides only the number of records ig...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

options itemerror

I'd like to see any error handled by the itemerror parm of the options utility. Currently it only handles those errors that cause a RC8. If it is an unavailable resource or something else that causes an abend the step will abend rather than proces...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add an option to run a failed query again

After running a set of SQL statements in one single go, the SQL Results view shows a twistie with the success or failure status of each individual statement, and of the statement group as a whole. Quite often -- especially when running DDL -- I h...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Unique Index, where one specific value can be duplicate

MR0125102749 GGDB209018Enhance the create index similar to the UNIQUE WHERE NOT NULL clause
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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