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Db2 for z/OS

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DSNTIAUL should support input LRECL size of > 80 bytes and not ignore input beyond the first 72 bytes

It is sometimes easy to put SQL all on one record as long as the LRECL of that record is very large. It becomes difficult to parse that SQL so it is divided into 72 byte records. Currently, the IBM utilities have input files that can have a LRECL ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSM Explain profile

Hello, Our idea is to use DSM so that users, authenticated in DSM with administrator profile, can do EXPLAIN without the need to have DB2 z/OS operation user credentials, as in the case of Data Collection Credentials. We have a generic user crea...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

SQLCODE -20528 SQLCODE20528N

CCB occasionally received SQLCODE -20528. As stated in DB2 CODES manual, this can occur while two transactions trying to update a row in system-period temporal table closely. A row being moved to history table can have sys_start higher than sys_en...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Planned for future release

Enable create index during prime time

We are running 24/7 banking applications and are unable to create an index during peak times. One reason for this behaviour might be APAR PK74729 resulting in a timeout for the create index command when packages are active. But we also get conflic...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SQLCODE -180 (invalid date/time) - add identifier for hostvariable.

When it comes to SQLCODE -180 (invalid value for date/time/timestamp) due to wrong data in an input-hostvarible currently DB2 issues following SQLCODE: SELECT * FROM SYSIBM.SYSTABLES WHERE CREATEDTS = ? Hostvariable holds 'SCHUBIDU' DSNT408I SQLCO...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Need JSON UDFs (JSON_TABLE, etc.) to perform similar to XMLTABLE

Need to performance (elapsed time, cpu time) for JSON UDFs to match or exceed XMLTABLE function.We will be using HTTPGETCLOB to invoke RESTful APIs for Web Services on non-mainframe platforms.Our DB2/Legacy applications will need to invoke these, ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Bi-Temporal support for DB2 AUTH tables

I am asking for bi-temporal AUTH tables, and while I think the plan is to add System Temporal with Cypress on many catalog tables, I'm asking also for Business Temporal. There are a couple reasons for this request, first from a Business Temporal p...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

RECOVER utility option to include inflights

There should be an option in RECOVER utility which allows to include during recovery all the inflight threads which started before the point of time to which we are recovering the object. Currently all inflights are being rolled back
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSNACCOX RRTDataSpaceRatio & TSQTY ZPARM

Our DBAs would like to use the RRTDataSpaceRatio attribute via DSNACCOX stored procedure to facilitate triggering REORGs for over allocated tablespaces. This is not currently possible due to the fact that REORGs are triggered erroneously for small...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Online Constraint name renaming capability

MR0803067232 DBDB2D/S05008 Expand the ALTER-TABLE–Statement with an RENAME-Clause or add a RENAME-CONSTRAINT-Statement which renames the constraint name online.
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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