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    Allow the SQL ALTER statement to convert SYNONYMS into ALIASES.

    We have over 800,000 synonyms across 100+ DB2 subsystems/data sharing groups to convert to aliases. In our production environments, the conversion of synonyms to aliases (DROP SYNONYM/CREATE ALIAS) is going to cause carnage because all of our prod...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Wrap-around PBG table optimized for time-series data

    Add support for a new type of PBG table/tablespace which is optimized for time series data, such as that used for journaling, logging, staging, history collection, etc. The main feature of this new PBG table/tablespace is that data is always inser...
    9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

    Trim blanks from 60 byte statement text in IFCID 316

    IFCID 316 contains only the first 60 bytes of the SQL text. Some programs may, for readability, include lots of blank spaces around SQL text. In extreme cases (python scripts) the text is preceded by a line of blanks. In these cases the 60 bytes o...
    6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Prevent package invalidation after ALTER TABLE ROTATE

    System: Production management databaseActor: Developers maintaining the databaseDescription: Our customer runs a 24/7 production management OLTP system with IMS V10 and DB2 V9 for z/OS on which its transaction rate gets as high as 10 trans/sec, an...
    over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1

    COPYTOCOPY with new keyword SYSTEMPAGES(YES)

    We do FlashCopy image copies by COPY utility and then a COPYTOCOPY to other media from these FlashCopies. Normally the UNLOAD utility can use these image copies generated by COPYTOCOPY, but in some cases not: as the dictionary was created by INSER...
    6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    DB2 Return Code Differentiate for Deadlock and Timeout via Subsys Normal Call Exit

    DB2 presents IMS ( via Subsystem Normal Call Exit ) with the same return code (4) for: DB2 resource deadlocks DB2 resource unavailable conditions Example, lock timeouts on object locks, such as are taken by DB2 utilities and those caused b...
    almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

    Add auditing to Db2 profile tables

    We need a way to determine who/what/when changed something on the profile tables. DSN_PROFILE_TABLE DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES Current tables have timestamp but it's static. Would be nice to have row change timestamp added so we have both insert and u...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Dataset Processing (CREATE, DELETE, EXTEND) should get a timelimit

    We had an unimportant pageset, which was defined with ERASE YES. Due to the long timeframe of writing x'00' (ERASE YES) on the tracks of this pageset, another dataset processing (EXTEND) of a very important pageset waits and is timed out. This tim...
    7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Implicit Tablespaces for conversion of multi-table tablespaces to UTS PBG

    When converting multi-table tablespaces to universal tablespaces with new command ALTER TABLESPACE MOVE TABLE you need to create a new tablespace for each table explicitely before you can use the command. It would be very nice if the ALTER TABLESP...
    over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    IRLM enhancement in case of global deadlock processing

    We had a situation which was described in case TS015567644. The symptom was that IRLM could not fully process the complete deadlock stuff of all members of an 8-way DS system. Therefore we get DXR167E in some of the members. Additional workload wi...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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