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Db2 for z/OS

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Db2 z/OS limitations with ALTER TABLESPACE MOVE TABLE

I love the upcoming FL508 and this new availability even though I have not used it. Looking deeper into the Knowledge Center there seems to be some limitations that I would like to see resolved. The two items are: a) Exist in the same data...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Avoid Reorg Abends by improving estimation of average row length

Today, for estimating the average row length being passed to sort, REORG gets that from catalog statistics with either AVGROWLEN or COMPRESSRATIO. The reason RTS stats is not used, is because RTS only contains the compressed data size.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

add SPACENAM in DISPLAY BLOCKERS command

PTF UI69433 introduces a new command DISPLAY BLOCKERS which is wonderful because it provides rich information of locks and claimers. The only draw back is it does not have SPACENAM option to narrow down the output.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

SQL Data Insights - no option to weight attributes for AI_COMMONALITY

For outlier detection weighting single attributes (columns) is key, since attributes in a given dataset negatively affect the outcome of AI_COMMONALITY as tests shown
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

remove limitations in workfile database which leedsto outages

When a workfile is created Db2 increments obid, when a workfile ist dropped the obid is not released by Db2. There is a restriction of maximum 500 workfiles. When the limit has been reached, no more work files can be created, SQL code -497 is retu...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Rename column should be possible if View is on table

We encountered that Rename column is not possible if a View esists on the appropriate table. We would like to exploit this new function (Rename Column), but we have views, which does not allow that. We already have a similar requirement MR02141152...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Command to display the DB2 early code

Customer wants to apply new early code with REFRESH DB2, EARLY by automation software. To be sure that they apply new code, they want to display the early code before the REFRESH DB2 command. Unfortunately this command is not yet implemented, and ...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

FL LEVEL support

In Db2 12 the Functional Level is currently *not* externalized in various places where it most definitely should be. Notably the PLAN_TABLE, IFCID 316 and IFCID 401. If you are attempting tuning you *must* know under which FL level the SQL in ques...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Adding userid and timestamp info in Database exception table (DBET)

When an objects goes to a pending status or STOP status due to unplanned / unexpected activity, it is difficult to identify who /when the object went to that restrictive status.Already the DBET will be storing information when an object goes to ST...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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