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Db2 for z/OS

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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

Display IAG2 on object level

Sometimes IAG2 will be disabled, in some situations this is clear and ok, in some situations it is strange and not expected. To implement reliable automation we need e.g. an enhancement to DISPLAY DATABASE SPACENAM with IAG, which shows which inse...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DB2 message showing a trace was started

Today we have situations where people authorized to start DB2 traces sometimes issue START TRACE commands with little qualifications with lead to traces being collected for lots of DB2 threads which ends having impact on general performance of the...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DECFLOAT support for COBOL and PLI with DCLGEN

When we run DCLGEN on an object with a DECFLOAT column, we get the following error: DSNE958I DCLGEN DOES NOT SUPPORT THE SQL DATA TYPE DECFLOAT (SQLTYPE 996) FOR THE PLI LANGUAGE DSNE905I EXECUTION COMPLETE, MEMBER ... ADDED The created DECLARE an...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Full package support for Restful services

A restful service contains one and only one SQL statement and is, simply put, a mini-static package. It was delivered with a couple of problems. Firstly, the only way to tell if this static package is a restful service is to look at the HOSTLANG c...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Future consideration

Full Column Match and I1 Access on SQL with Correlated Sub-Queries Containing Column Expressions and Supporting IoE

Some queries with column expressions - DATE(A1.EFCTV_TS) <= DATE('04/05/2020') for example, and an Index on Expression to support the expression are achieving I1 access while others are not. It appears this is because of how the query is curren...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic Plan Stability - Option to restabilize an invalidated query missing

We've got several SQL queries stabilized with dynamic plan stability. Reason is to prevent them from getting a bad accesspath. After operations like "ALTER TABLE ... ROTATE PARTITION..." the query is flagged to valid N in SYSIBM.SYSDYNQRY. Than we...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Alters to objects that require reorg to material should be put into advisory reorg, such as PCTFREE

If an alter is done to a TS to PCTFREE and a REORG is not run, then the catalog is updated but the change is not materialized. This results in the DBA thinking it was done, but it really wasn;t.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

IFCID 366/376: include SQL text in the trace records

The analysis of IFCID 366/376 is done via SMF records. When these records are available (one day delay), it is nearly impossible to match the statement ID to a statement in dynamic statement cache, because the statement might be already discarded....
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide a new bind-option to provide values for the remark-column in SYSPACKAGE

There were several discussions regarding APPLCOMPAT and providing a value that a customer can easily see that a package was bound a level down. This request was refused by DB2 development, but another solution was acceptable. A new bind option can...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration