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Db2 for z/OS

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Allow DSMAX to be set by Db2 command

Our installation has repeatedly had trouble with Db2 shutting down in a timely fashion for IPLs. We have taken dumps and sent them to IBM and IBM has stated repeatedly that the delay in shutdown involves dataset close. We set DSMAX very high and h...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

A new DB2 option to allow Customers to determine when waiters or blockers should be killed

A new DB2 option is needed to allow Customers to determine when waiters or blockers should be killed.Granularity is required based on profile tables specifying connection type,exclusion list, business value, effort to rollback.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSNL046I should provide more information on what application triggered this message

Good day, I have DSNL046I at one our existing DB2 masters. None of our DB2 Services is using Crytography services, so the message it's right. I tried to know what was triggering this message in order to see whether I could do anything to improve i...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Set DB2 ZPARMs TSQTY and IXQTY to -1

Please would it be possible to set the DB2 for z/OS ZPARMs, TSQTY and IXQTY, to -1? Virtually all of our tablespaces and indexspaces are created with a PRIQTY and SECQTY of -1. It would be really useful to set the default values for TSQTY and IXQ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Support DECFLOAT in COBOL

DECFLOAT was introduced in DB2 9 and has just recently been enhanced to be usable in indexes. However the datatype is not supported in COBOL and FORTRAN and only "tolerated" in REXX (as a DOUBLE and then without NAN, SNAN or INFINITY). As a mainfr...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

JSON Indexing on non-inline LOBs

Currently IBM allows the creation of indexes for JSON docs stored in an inline LOB but not a non-inline LOB. We want to make full use of JSON docs in DB2 for zOS. We wanted to avoid having to move more apps to MongoDB.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

XML, XMLMODIFY, Rename a tag without loosing data

The possibility to rename a XML-Tag without loosing data in one single step with XMLMODIFY or with xmlquery as in LUW:Example 1:UPDATE EOBK.SMXML SET XMLDATEN = XMLMODIFY(' rename node /RECORD/FREMD_EROEFF_DAT' as "ABSCHLUSS_DATUM") WHERE SPARTE =...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

DB2 Multi-Row Fetch/Insert - COBOL Programming Modell

Customer addressed to IBM that the use of DB2 Multi-Row Fetch/Insert is not well accepted by the developers since it increases the programming complexity a lot and is not ease to use in COBOL. Initial discussions pointed to the already addressed "...
almost 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Rebuild Index Utility - early checking for Read-Only-Tablespaces requested

Please check Restrictions earlier and stop starting and running Utilitys that cannot be finished.
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Is a defect