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Db2 for z/OS

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Query rewrite eliminating "always true" and "always false" predicates

We would like DB2 to be able to rewrite dynamic SQL statements that contain parameter markers by eliminating "always true" and "always false" predicates once it knows the values of the parameter markers. It often happens that such predicates are n...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Concatenation of Timestamps not possible in DB2 for z/OS

This SQL runs in DB2 LUW but not in DB2 z/OS: WITH CTEREVUR AS( SELECT OID, CREATEDBY, CREATEDAT, NAME, VALIDTO, VALIDFROM, UPDATEACTION, REPLACEDAT, TIMESTAMP_FORMAT(VALIDFROM, 'YYYY-MM-DD') || TIMESTAMP_FORMAT(VALIDTO, 'YYYY-MM-DD') AS COMBINE F...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Implicit cast of decimal/exp notation format comparator to valid decimal value when DSNHDECM DECIMAL=COMMA

When the subsystem decimal point is a period, the following comparisons are treated as valid: WHERE = dddd.ddWHERE = 0.ddddddEnn When the subsystem decimal point is a comma, comparisons in dynamic SQL of the form: WHERE = dddd.ddWHERE = dddd,ddWHE...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Native SQL Stored Procedure Call Statement Does Not Support Using A Host Variable For The Procedure Name

For DB2 V10 and V11. The CALL SQL statement inside a NSP only supports:CALL procedure-name it does not support: CALL host-variable like the CALL SQL statement outside a NSP does. DB2 needs to be changed so that the CALL SQL statement inside a NSP ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

SQL performance is bad after V10 migrate.

Our customer migrated DB2 V10(NFM) from V8(NFM).In particular query,processing time took one minute in the case of DB2 V8,but DB2 V10 increased to 11 minutes. The VIEW has been used by the customer LEFT OUTER JOIN 50 times near internally.As a res...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

"Index on expression" should be used more

By implementing an "index on expression", a DBA has the ability to tune many queries that are written poorly without changing the query. This is very useful and allows a DBA to rapidly respond to a performance problem. However, there are some time...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Auth to EXCHANGE CLONE Tables

This is very similar to an RFE that i submitted for MQTs...ID : 39165'Auth to Refresh Table for MQT'Under Consideration We have the same situation for CLONE Tables. The developers wish to run the EXCHANGE using Dynamic SQL, but the RACF ID that ru...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to ALTER BUFFERPOOL AT PARTITION LEVEL

We have partitioned by Growth table of size 1.5TB. It is defined in the bufferpool BP2. We noticed that the average row length of the rows is around 2000 and hence by altering the tablespace to BP16K0, each page will contain more rows there by giv...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

We'd like a way to ALTER INLINE Scalar Functions

As noted in our 55126.379.000 PMR.... ‎ We recently encountered an issue when the need arose to change an inline UDF that has dependent objects (i.e. stored procedures). We ‎found we cannot simply ALTER the UDF as we do when changing a stored ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Collect & Save DB2 Statistics Every Minute

Lack of “big picture” affects ability to tune DB2.When a DB2 performance problem is bought to our attention, the first thing that we need to determine is whether the problem is significant or not. Addressing an insignificant problem wastes tim...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration