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Db2 for z/OS

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Alter Database CCSID to UNICODE

The CCSID of a database is only allowed to be ALTERed within the encoding scheme (in this case EBCDIC) and only to/from the euro-equivalent CCSID of the original EBCDIC CCSID. This is a legacy restriction at the design level. After converting all ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow certain Table ALTERs when Table has defined View(s)

Allow certain Table ALTERs to be performed if the Table has a defined VIEW. The attached file contains the Table DDL and ALTER statement for this RFE's Use Case.
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

control size of UOW after an alter to rotate partition

requesting that DB2 generate reasonably sized URs when performing a mass delete action against a table with DATA CAPTURE set to CHANGES. in a specific case, we were rotating partitions on a base source table which was being replicated with data ca...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 for z/OS Statistics Interval allow at 1 second

DB2 for z/OS Statistics trace interval minimum value is not granular enough for some diagnostic situations. Allowing it to be set a a more granular level would be helpful (lower interval).
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SQLCODE doesn't provide useful information when performing a SELECT on a DB2 table with Row Access Control implemented

We are planning to use ' Row access control' in DB2 as a solution to share some tables, but giving end-users/processes access only to the data they are allowed to see. We have found it really easy to implement (with the built-in function VERIFY_GR...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Autostats enhancement; create Runstats Profiles without COLGROUPs already covered by KEYCARD

AUTOSTATS creates RUNSTATS Profiles containing COLGROUPs which are already covered by KEYCARD. This leads to additional RUNSTATS activities and wastes resources.
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Don't require WITH GRANT access on tables when transferring ownership on a view

Don't require WITH GRANT access on tables when transferring ownership on a view
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Copy with option Changelimit and Template switching based on changed pages

Whe are using the TEMPLATE SWITCHING with a LIMIT 16 MB in a Copy with option CHANGELIMIT. The allocation of copies is made during the utilinit and is based on 10% of the HI-U-RBA and not on the pages to be copied. In this way some very large copi...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow DB2 system agents be offloaded to zIIP regardless of iiphonorpriority settings

In DB2 11, if the subsystem come up and detects that IIPHONORPRIORITY=NO, then the system agents will no longer be dispatched to zIIP. We would like that system agents will be offloaded to zIIP regardless of iiphonorpriority settings.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

FR583: Enhance IFCID 316 to capture stats of UDFs as well

When the following dynamic SQL query is issued, processing the query involves processing a UDF. This works fine. However, when looking at SQL dynamic statements stats in a DB2 monitor, which retrieves IFCID 316 data from DB2, the data provided is ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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