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Db2 for z/OS

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Externalize non-DSC SQL in IFCID 316

An old request that got rejected but is for me, and at least 52 other voters, important was the IFI 316 for non-DSC eligible Dynamic SQLs. The business case here has two major reasons: First and most important these days – Audit. Any Dynamic SQL m...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow to ALTER (and CREATE) a Db2 pageset with the max allowable size

The current maximum for PRIQTY is 64GB. If one wants to avoid extent processing in z/OS and has pagesets larger than 64GB, there is no option (besides user-defined pagesets) to achieve this. By using IAG2 we encountered the fact that IAG2 is somet...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Violation of referential integrity - enrich the inaccurate messagetext DSNT408I for sqlcode -530 with parent <> child information

If the insert in a child table is not successful because the foreign key value does not match with a primary key value for a given relationship DB2 sends DSNT408I. Looking into this messagetext you will find only the name of the relationship. That...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow FOR SYSTEM TIME ALL

If you have system-period temporal table you can query the table (and it's history table) with a period-specification: FOR SYSTEM TIME AS OF timestamp FOR SYSTEM TIME BETWEEN timestamp AND timestamp FOR SYSTEM TIME FROM timestamp TO timestamp ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Db2 could support the UPDATE option for Db2 z/OSMF workflows

whenever an RSUyymm maintenance makes significant changes to a install job and/or workflow member it gets regenerated via the UPDATE option which should result in a quicker turn around less prone to error Note: found a similar request made in 2022...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

JDBC connection property currentSchema should be externalised in an IFCID

We have jdbc applications which have set the jdbc property currentSchema to determine the collection of db2 objects like tables, views etc. When we want to trace the application with a performance trace, we're not able to analyse the correct colle...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Prevent package invalidation after ALTER TABLE ROTATE

System: Production management databaseActor: Developers maintaining the databaseDescription: Our customer runs a 24/7 production management OLTP system with IMS V10 and DB2 V9 for z/OS on which its transaction rate gets as high as 10 trans/sec, an...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0

Allow WITH UR for SET assignment-statement with row-subselect

Allow The WITH isolation level clause for SET assignment-statement with row-subselect. We need to be able to select data into a global array without imposing a share (or any other) lock.
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Improvements in online DDL changes - DBD design

Our company uses DB2 zOS almost exclusively for dynamic SQL workloads. Our management expects that DB2 zOS also has high availability regarding DDL changes in this application szenario. If you intend to perform DDL changes in this environment duri...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 15 Not under consideration

Allow Encrypted Connection for IBM Debug Tool and Unified Debugger

Reviewing the connection with the Db2 Unified debugger, it was determined it was not using an encrypted port. All tools (mainframe or otherwise) should support full encryption over ATL-TLS.
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review