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    Allow the SQL ALTER statement to convert SYNONYMS into ALIASES.

    We have over 800,000 synonyms across 100+ DB2 subsystems/data sharing groups to convert to aliases. In our production environments, the conversion of synonyms to aliases (DROP SYNONYM/CREATE ALIAS) is going to cause carnage because all of our prod...
    over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

    Log extra information in lim log at info level to track lim performance especially at the communication level

    We have been observing primary LIM queue getting full on several occasion on the cloud environments. This leads to unavailable hosts and sometimes in SSM(s) getting killed due to hosts being removed from the grid because of the unavailability. We ...
    about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

    Way to tell if a Db2 view is not being used any longer

    We are looking for a solution to tell if a Db2 view is still used or not.A request came to our team to rename a column in several tables. One of the tables have multiple view on it, and one of the view includes the column to be renamed. We cannot ...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Future consideration

    Increase Limit for processing LOB values

    We want to use the new OAM S3 interface. But we are hitting the limit of 50GB for processing LOB values.This results in errors with Resource unavailable and REASON 00C900D2.Before V12 there were two zParms LOBVALA and LOBVALS which could be set to...
    10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    implicitly created object enhancement

    For costumers with strong naming convention in object creation, it would be useful to define a template, which will be used to create implicit objects. In our case, we are affected by implicit created LOB tables of PbG tablespaces: Base objects: C...
    8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

    DSNI052I Work File Message Enhancement

    We have frequent alerts about Work File issue, but when it is triggered by a distributed connection as below, it does not really help us much to identify the culprit. All Java threads do use the same CorrelationID and Package Name and we have tens...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

    Granular grant-able authorization to allow explaining all statements stored in DSC

    Currently there is a requirement to hold at least SQLADM authority to explain statements kept in DSC, and which were executed with a different SQLID. This is security exposure as for such basic action like statement explain it gives the user all t...
    12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    ALTER Bufferpool enhancement for 1M page frames

    Today it could happen that z/OS converts 1M page frames to 4k page frames due to demand of jobs. If Db2 admin has requested a special amount of LFAREA for 1M frames in SYS1.PARMLIB for a later ALTER BPOOL, this amount could be consumed by the prev...
    6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Deferred ALTERs can be materialized on a subset of partitions

    We have a 2048 partitioned Tablespace and need to ALTER the keyranges. Afterwards a REORG on the complete object is needed. We want a piecemeal tactic for the REORG: All ALTERs are in SYSPENDINGDDL, and a REORG on partition level can materialize a...
    12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Allow to query and stop an object in one go to avoid STOPP

    HSM allows to move DB2 page sets by stopping them and copying them and then starting the page sets again. HSM does this by DIS DB(...) SP(...) USE and a subsequent STO DB(...) SP(...). If in the small timing window between the DIS command and the ...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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