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Db2 for z/OS

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PieceMeal Delete without coding application

During CERT (V12-CERT-2017) it was a desire amongst several customers to get a sort of imbedded COMMIT in the new piecemeal DELETE - when running from TSO attachment.-Alternatively to allow procedural language (SQL PL like) syntax in SPUFI/DSNTEP2...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 z/OS LOAD utility fail in utilinit holds UTUT status

LOAD REPLACE LOG(YES) fails due to share locks/claims being held on tablespace but leaves tables in UTUT status which makes in inaccessible. Suggest that the UTUT is removed or changed to UTRW and can attempt UTUT again upon restart of the utility...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Db2 FCIC should provide option to avoid taking long time with IGD17291I message

Please refer to the existing RFE ID 126885, "FCIC JOB takes long time with msg IGD17291I", opened from z/OS (DFSMS DSS) side, also. The data amount will be extremely increasing in our customer. To minimize data unavailability, they are trying to ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow multiple ALTER PART nnn VALUES clauses in one ALTER TABLE stmt instead of SQLcode -637 error

Requirement to alter many partition limit key values for a PBR tablespace. New values come from external source so REORG REBALANCE is not suitable. With index-based partitioning it is possible to alter multiple partition limit keys in a single AL...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

DCLGEN ignores hidden columns

We have defined columns with "IMPLICITLY HIDDEN" and want to generate the host variable declarations with the DCLGEN command which is described with"The declarations generator (DCLGEN) produces an SQL DECLARE TABLE statement and a COBOL, PL/I, or ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Referential Integrity for Real-time Statistics Tables (RI for RTS)

OVERVIEW: The RTS tables do not have DB2-enforced RI. The DB2 component that handles the maintenance of this data can encounter certain failures that can result in obsolete/invalid/orphaned data in the table(s). By the way, this is more prevalent ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Message when IFI interface and monitor traces are disabled due to errors

When the IFI abend count reaches some hardcoded number which is not externalized this results in the disabling of all IFI request and MONITOR trace processing. Then when an application tries to use IFI it receives 00E60831 but the msg only goes to...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

flood of console with I/O error messages when Db2 is always tring to allocate/open LOGCOPY1 first for each LOG-READ request

Customer would like to avoid a flood of console with I/O error messages. The test environment and scenario is as follows.environment: - DB2 V11 DATA sharing (We have three MEMBER DB1A, DB2A, DB3A) - Q-Capture(IIDR for DB2 V10.2.1) server is runnin...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Current authorization session variable

We would like to have a session variable that would identify the current authorization in use by a connection. By "current authorization", I would like it to identify the package owner of the package being executed for static sql or dynamic sql us...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

in DB2 v.11 env. question on use of httpgetblobfile

Problem description and business impact customer in z/os v2.2 and db2 v.11 have a question on function httpgetblobfile: the function (db2xml.httpgetblobfile but also db2xml.httpgetclobfile) has in input a varchar with the url and a clob with the h...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration