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Allow advanced graph filtering

- Allow multi selection in the graph inventory to hide programs / tables / ...- Allow filtering arrows by direction
over 9 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 3 Not under consideration

Support compilation of PL/I and COBOL programs without an active DB2 connection

The compilation of PL/I and COBOL programs on the z/OS mainframe is possible without an active database connection.This does not work on the AIX platform, which requires a database connection during compilation and a DB user withsufficient privile...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

CASE with EXISTS in UPDATE returns SQL0582N, which is inconsistent behavior with db2 z/OS

db2 "update test_tab set c1=case when exists (selectc2 from test_tab where c2=1) then 'A' else 'B' END" DB21034E The command was processed as an SQL statement because it was not a valid Command Line Processor command. During SQL processing it retu...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Functions for converting Unix Epoch Time and Dealing with RHEL 8 Native Posix MQ

SQL scalar functions for Converting between human-readable date/time and Unix Epoch Time. For example: db2 "values ept2date(123456789,0)" is equivalent to Linux GNU date command date -d "1970-01-01 1234567890 sec UTC db2 "values "date2ept('now')" ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

DB2 LUW support for CentOS 8 Stream

As announced in December of 2020, The CentOS Project has shifted focus from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream. Here are the expected end of life (EOL) dates for CentOS 8release. CentOS Linux 8 EOL: 2021-12-31 Today DB2 11.5.6 is certificated/compatibl...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Adding storage path to specific partition

Recently I faced a problem on a DPF environment. I had raised below case with IBM and seems as of now this is not possible. In DPF environment, how can I add storage path to a specific database partititon? The below command adds the storage path t...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Future consideration

Index support for "expression op expression"

In our environment, we have many queries with predicate: "expression op expression". As they don't use indexes they're performing a table scan. We would like DB2 to be able to use indexes to resolve this type of predicate. Examples: SELECT [id], [...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

PL/SQL compatibility - default values of procedure parameters

Currently DB2 does not fully support Oracle-style definition of default parameters in PL/SQL stored procedures (including those in functions). The following definition works in Oracle, but requires modification in DB2: CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE my...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Performance degradation after enabling RCAC

Performance degradation and difference in behavior of access plan on stored procedure query after enabling RCAC - column masking for a column which is part of select condition. The query access plan without RCAC is scanning only the table (Table A...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Allow complete acces path in optimization hint (like db2 for ZOS)

We have the same cobol application that on both z/os and luw.We are using static sql in packages. We run 12 schemas using the same sets of tables in each for manual application parallelism.Occasionally a package for a given schema will flip access...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration