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Audit 145 records; always supply a (non-zero) QW0145SI value.

As per PH04538, under the current design, "we are afraid that zero QW0145SI can not be eliminated as it happens when the stmt is not cached nor static base on current design. "
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Deployment Of Native SQL Stored Procedures With Validate(Bind) Is Call Order Dependent

For DB2 V10 and V11. When NSPs are created with Validate(Bind), they have to be deployed in reverse call order or the the bind deploys will fail with a procedure not found error. If NSPs are created with Vaildate(Run) to get around this limitation...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve optimizers cost estimation when recursive table expression invloved

Please refer to case TS004038133. Application developer uses SQL EXPLAIN to compare the cost of different SQL statement and decides which one to use. In one case, they found EXPLAIN reported lower cost for one SQL than other but in actual executio...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add SORTNPSI_USED To SYSIBM.SYSINDEXSPACESTATS

Use case/business impact. All indexes reorged on Sunday. Run daily process to identify any index needing reorged by interrogating RTS. Since NPSI organization can rapidly deteriorate, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support Common Table Expression (CTE) in NTE

Today, the using of Common Table Expression (CTE) is limited only to the beginning of the select statement. There are many products, specially open source, but not only, that take every select statement and cover it by SELECT * from (nte). When ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Default value for DECLARED GLOBAL TEMPORARY Table

Current default for DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE is ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS. We would like to have the ability to change this via a zparm to ON COMMIT DROP TABLE so that we maximize our thread resuse.
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve performance of except statement

Hi, For the first time I had a use for the except statement. It is quite simple: SELECT DISTINCT LOG_PGM FROM BDSTB030_BDSLOG EXCEPT SELECT LOG_PGM FROM BDSTB031_BDSLOG_SLET I want all LOG_PGM from the first table, that is not in the secon...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Status RREPL can be removed via normal start

In DB2 V10, we can do a START RREPL to certify that only a replication product (in our case, qrep) can update the table. It's good, as today we need a trigger in the target table to have this. The problem is that with a single start RW this restri...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Seperation of DB2 latch 24 coutner in EDM pool and prefetch counter

EDM pool latch suspend cannot be recognized in the DB2 statistics latch 24 counter, because suspends for prefetch are also counted in this field. In the DB2 statistics IFCID 001 there are QVLS latch counters, which are reporting the number of susp...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Automation Utility to convert from IBM RACF DB2 External Security to IBM DB2 Internal Security.

We are requesting a DB2 Automation Utility to convert from IBM RACF DB2 External Security to IBM DB2 Internal Security. This utility must be able to do the reverse of the RACF/DB2 Conversion Utility that was used to convert data in DB2 Internal Se...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration