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Db2 for z/OS

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DB2 Generated Always Timestamp Field - Default Values Change

The 'default value' for a generated always time stamp column is the last PAGE update time stamp or LRSN, but the LRSN can change and thus the default value changes. Which means that until you REORG the object, when you update a single row on a DB2...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

DB2 for z/OS please allow CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE statement (and FUNCTION)

I would like DB2 for z/OS to allow CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE (and FUNCTION)Apparently, DB2 for LUW allows CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Visibility dynamic statement cache users of tables involved in resource unavailable on an EXCHANGE DATA

EXCHANGE DATA failing with -904 rc00E70081 DSNT408I SQLCODE = -904, ERROR: UNSUCCESSFUL EXECUTION CAUSED BY AN UNAVAILABLE RESOURCE. REASON 00E70081, TYPE OF RESOURCE 00000A00, AND RESOURCE NAME PCPS0004. ADVSRY_ACCT_ACT_14566 DSNT500I -PROD DSNXI...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Unique DB2 Message To Indicate That GRECP and LPL Recovery Is Complete And There Are No More Objects Flagged As GRECP or LPL

We are using GDPS automation to drive our disaster recovery processes and we have been running into a number of problems with LPL and GRECP recovery due to contention during startup of data sharing groups. This in turn causes failures when MQ shar...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Dynamic delete (or change) active logs in BSDS

Dynamic delete (or change) active logs in BSDS
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Recover TS from IC

To have the ability to RECOVER the TABLESPACE from and IMAGE COPY, irrespective of the catalogue being available.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Reset and Collect new statistics in one go

We sometimes need to reset the old statistics in regards to access path selection.This is possible by RUNSTATS ... RESET ACCESSPATH. But in some cases the new RUNSTATS run long enough so that DYNAMIC SQL statements can slip into this timegap.Hence...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

complete alter trigger statement

If you need to change the logic of a trigger, you have to DROP and (re)CREATE it. So there is a moment (after the drop) where DML-statements could be executed which are not caught by the trigger.So I'm asking for the ability to execute an ALTER TR...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Read all SQL statements from dynamic statement cache

Storage areas in DB2 become bigger and bigger, so does the dynamic statement cache. When reading the DSC data with the IFI function READS (IFCID 316) the possibility to get an RC 00E60833 increases, when specifying a return area that is large enou...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

In DB2 avoid creation of segmented tablespace

Need to have a zparm parameter to inhibit creation of segmented tablespace
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered