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Db2 for z/OS

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Enhance the TO_DATE scalar function for source data in week dependant format data

With the TO_CHAR scalar function i can convert a "normal" date format to a week dependant format.e.g. select to_char('30.03.2017', 'IYYY.IW.ID') from sysibm.sysdummy1 delivers 2017.13.4; fourth isoday (thursday) in week 13 of year 2017. The invers...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Rebuild should materialize pending changes on indexes

Recently we had big problems with index splits. Therefore we altered the bufferpool from 4K-pages to 8K-pages and run a rebuild. But we had to ran a reorg on the whole tablespace, which has about 1 billion rows and a few indexes, which we wanted t...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

RUNSTATS Partition Pageset Processing

DB2 RUNSTATS process opens all pagesets for all partitions and all indexes up front and keeps them open during the life of the utility.Could there be changes made so RUNSTATS utility open pagesets and releases pagesets when needed?
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Display info about stopped Stored Procedure

We have a few Stored procedures that has been stopped intentionally waiting for them to be dropped. We want to keep them in a stopped state for a period of time so that we can be sure no one use them. One example of this is when we rewrite externa...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Moving extra area for IRLM latch information provided by PI93817 from QTXA to a new section.

This is related to PMR 73570,611,760. Applying a PTF for PI93817, new 124 bytes fields for IRLM latch contention counters are added to IFCID QTXA section, which is shared between statistics and accounting trace. However, those new fields are used ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Auditing administrative authorities in DB2 zOS with RACF-Exit DSNX$XAC

DB2 IFCID361 should be written when an administrative authority is used - Independent of the security exit used. When using the full RACF-Exit DSNX$XAC DB2 IFCID361 is not written/supressed , as RACF grants the access -- but does not give back to ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

To add a built in REVERSE( ) function in the SQL of DB2

CCB want to add an build-in REVERSE( ) function in the SQL of DB2 for z/OS. There is an alternative way of using UDF, but customer worry about it's perfromance, they prefer to add an build-in REVERSE( ) function in SQL. The REVERSE function is use...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DDLTOX multiplier for IRLMRWT (allow values between 0 and 1)

DB2 subsystem parameter DDLTOX allows us to specify how long a DDL request will wait for a resource before timing out.We have it set to the default value of 1, so the value of IRLMRWT applies, which we have set to 60 seconds. (Note that this is to...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

SQL Data Insights should show outliers relative to all rows in the table

Currently the AI_SIMILARITY function only shows outliers with respect to a specific entity in the table. There should be a way to determine outliers taking into account all rows in the table. This would be benificial in the case of fraud detection...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

options itemerror

I'd like to see any error handled by the itemerror parm of the options utility. Currently it only handles those errors that cause a RC8. If it is an unavailable resource or something else that causes an abend the step will abend rather than proces...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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