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My ideas: Db2 for z/OS

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Unique Index, where one specific value can be duplicate

MR0125102749 GGDB209018Enhance the create index similar to the UNIQUE WHERE NOT NULL clause
about 12 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DB2 should optimize queries adequately when are missing or out of date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...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Profiles ; time between DSNT771/2I messages made variable

Currently when a Profile is triggered (warning or exception) DSNT771/2I are issued every 5 minutes as long as exceptions/warnings are met in the timeframe. When an exception is triggered (maximum connections from IP for instance) the issue will oc...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support INLINE xml column

Asking for INLINE LENGTH for XML column like LOB column. It will make more efficient the work for short XML's.
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to work with page size other than 16K for xml tablespace

Today, xml table space must work with page size of 16K. We are asking the ability for all pagesizes, especially 32k to make the i/o more efficient.
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support partition level for PENDING DEFINITION CHANGES after altering to PAGENUM RELATIVE

When altering a table/table space and the state is PENDING DEFINITION CHANGES, in the most of the times we have to reorg the entire object. It take a lot of time and a lot of disk space for the shadow. Of course we do it with SORTDATA NO RECLUSTER...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add new STATUS codes to SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE to reflect different states of the tablespace

For the person who wants to identify the tablespaces that are in advisory reorg-pending status to collectively identify those tables and include them collectively in a reorganization job.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

When AHA-RFE is implemented -> the APAR and/or KC -> include reference to AHA-RFE nbr

When an AHA -RFE is implemented and the knowledge center (KC) is updated AND/OR the APAR is updated/created then please consider putting a reference in the documentation pointing back to the AHA-RFE number! There may be pros and cons to including ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Use permanent database for DSNTRVFY rather than implicit database

Each time we run DSNTIJRV, the DSNTRVFY program creates the DSNTRVFY.VALIDATION_TABLE in an implicitly-created database, which the process then leaves hanging around with no objects in it. Both empty databases and implicitly-created databases viol...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future 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...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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