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Db2 for z/OS

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Detect corrupted pointers in the free chain and avoid referencing them

We are currently using a USERMOD which detects corrupted pointers in the free chain before referencing them and, if detected, automatically truncates the free chain to avoid referencing bad addresses. If this can be generalized and implemented wit...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered

Allow statement level hints on SQL in stored procedure packages

It is a huge pain to hint specific statements contained within stored procedure packages. Currently you will get this message if trying to bind query for a statement level hint on a procedure package: DSNT281I -DBP1 BIND QUERY FOR QUERYNO = 59988 ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered

Allow BIND(REPLACE) on a DB2 REST service

The current BIND SERVICE command allows BIND ACTION(ADD). It should be enhanced to include BIND ACTION(REPLACE). There are already enhancement Ideas present to allow for the replacing of the default version. During iterative development, or correc...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Make the TCPIP address available for security purposes

Currently the only data available on IP address is the literal 'TCPIP' Please make the IP address available in a standardized fashion/form that the ESMs can exploit for source ID checking/verification...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

syntax validation for DB2 ZOS SQL statement

In the past, Data Studio could validate DB2 z/OS SQL statement, but it now does not support new SQL after FL501. It gives false alarm when SQL does not have syntax error. Please refer to case TS003384292.
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enhance IFCID 389 for number of FTB traversals

When analyzing our company's benefits using FTB for Indexes I did not find a proper way to get the number of index getpages we saved using FTB. IFCID 199 does contain the number of getpages per pageset but the documentation of IFCID 199 also says...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

New metrics for REST Services

Users of OMEGAMON for Db2 would like to see counters for number of bound & executed REST statements.
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Delivered

USS CLP without supplying userid and password

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about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered

Support for complete db2 syntax, including set terminator and update command

As part of the Db2 notation for scripts, there are the following ones that are not supported by Db2: Set terminator, including multiple character terminators in the same script. Modify the auto commit option For example, the following is...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Remove the restriction on dropping a table in an explicitly created universal table space

We have converted most of the Segmented & Partitioned Tablespaces in our ERP Dev region to Universal Tablespaces. But, later started facing some issues due to the conversion as UTS are not supported by the ERP application. All the Table change...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered