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Db2 for z/OS

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Make parent business temporal table updatable

Business temporal tables that are parent table in referential integrity relationship cannot be updated in a way that reflects the time dimension of the data. As described in the attached document there is no way to change any column value from a s...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Db2 trace data should provide metrics related to usage of SysplexWLB (Workload Balancing) option

On our approach to change all remote connections to Db2 for z/OS into using SysplexWLB (workload balancing) option, we are missing a way to measure our progress here. (i. e. Java applications with property setting enableSysplexWLB=true) We would ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Db2 trace data should provide metrics related to secured connections (SSL, AT-TLS)

On our approach to convert all tcp/ip based connections to Db2 for z/OS to secured/protected ones (SSL,AT-TLS), we are missing a way to measure our progress here. The only way to get information about the portion of secured connections is (as far...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enable DSN1COMP to work on compressed tablespace data

We want DSN1COMP to be able to work with compressed table data. These days we've got an usecase, where we needed to check, if a new compression dictionary will saves us some MB/GB in a nearly completly full tablespace. Because of his size, we were...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Delivered

Officially support the ability to set which version of a REST service is the default one

Db2 REST services, with versioning enabled, sets the first service created via the BIND SERVICE command to be the default service. There is no official way to change which version of a service is the default one. It seems possible to set the defau...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Delivered

Add new column in Db2 catalog table

when IBM is planning to add a "LASTUSED" column on the DB2 for z/OS sysibm.systables table.
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

New metrics for REST Services

Users of OMEGAMON for Db2 would like to see counters for number of bound & executed REST statements.
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Delivered

Native Stored Procedure debugging for SQLPL

Hello! This is RFE(request for Enhancement) to deploy IBM DSM for our environment. My company Ford requires to add "Native Stored Procedure" debugging for SQLPL, which is required as high priority to support out business. the second require...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

DSNT376I message don't supply total information to solve the problem analisys

I found that as soon as the DB2 Lock Escalation message occurred (DSNI031I), DB2 seems to begin rejecting the ESS SQL calls against this tablespace, *immediately* without waiting the DB2 lock timeout interval. This probably explains why there is n...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 10 Delivered

Improve partial RTS externalization comunication to the user

Currently, during RTS externalization if the object being externalized is being accessed at one member of DSG via utility for example, the related member RTS information will now be skipped giving the false RTS view on the object. It is especially...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered