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about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Enable customers running 24/7 to create unique indexes

Our Internet and Mobile applications are used 24/7 and we do not have any batch windows nor any maintenance windows. When creating new indexes on existing tables the a CREATE INDEX operation generates an unwanted outage when created with DEFER NO....
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Future consideration

Utility History support to expand to record Utility Phase Level execution details

Utility History and the related object level history is a very welcome new addition. What will also be really useful will be the utility object level phase execution details e.g. CPU and Elapsed at every phase in the utility execution. This will p...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow a job to request both Project Mode Fast Dispatch resources and Cluster Mode resources at the same time

Customers have demanding license requirements that vary over time. One of the requirements is that license reservation and allocation by cluster works fine in most cases, but for some important and constrained licenses, project mode is the way to ...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Future consideration

Enhance Utility History Function to Support DSNUTILU and DSNUTILV

The current utility history function in Db2 for z/OS is incomplete since it does not record utilities that are executed via the Db2-supplied stored procedures DSNUTILU and DSNUTILV. This gap in functionality is especially troublesome for customers...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enhance RECOVERY utility to use information in a Safe Guarded Copy snapshot as recovery base for Db2 object level recovery

We do a Safe Guarded Copy (SGC) every 2 hours. The ongoing value for SGC is for now primarily as an insurance for a CyberAttack by providing a last good copy. The idea is 'simply' - although I know there is likely nothing simple in this - to be ab...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Allow alter column to drop NOT NULL constraint

Currently the only way to remove the NOT NULL constraint from a column is to unload the table, drop-recreate table (or drop-add column) and reload table. Such a small change needs so much effort, and causes unnecessary outage and service disruptio...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Information about index for mapping table in SYSOBJEVENTS is misleading

When doing a REORG TABLESPACE SHRLEVEL CHANGE both the tablespace and all indexes for it is inserted into SYSIBM.SYSOBJEVENTS. That is as it should be. What is also inserted is the namn of the index for the mapping table used. That is not as OK as...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

DGTT should be able to use more than one work space

Today one DGTT can only use one work tablespace in the workfile database. If we have one DGTT that need for example 512 GB of data we have to create all tablespaces for DGTT with that size. That is a waste of space. A better solution would be that...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Always allow parameter NOSYSREC for REORG TABLESPACE

NOSYSREC can be specified för REORG TABLESPACE. It can improve performance for the REORG. There are some situations where NOSYSREC is not allowed. The most common situation is when no data will be sorted during the REORG TABLESPACE job. Examples: ...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review