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Db2 for z/OS

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Add new Status for stopping Databases that will be Dropped or decomissioned

When you work for several accounts it's not easy to know whether a DB or TS has been stopped on purpouse or just due to some previous error. I think that some new status would be great, some Advisory STOP, something that doesn't allow people to us...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Online change of indexes

We would like to be able to alter indexes as an online change, regardless of whether it is a duplicate index or a unique index (in the latter case it will often be the addition of include columns). We often have changes to indexes in connection wi...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future 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.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Message DSNX241I will not appear after -SET SYSPARM if ENCRYPTION_KEYLABEL did not change

We are running DB2 12 FL 509 and zparm parameter ENCRYPTION_KEYLABEL does not have a value (is null or blank). Even having ENCRYPTION_KEYLABEL set to null, every time I issue a -SET SYSPARM command to reload the same zparm module (after altering o...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

DB2 for zOS correlated column behavior

Problem statement - unqualified column name interpreted as correlated reference. As per example below: DELETE FROM SYSADM.T1 WHERE COL3 IN (SELECT COL3 FROM SYSADM.T2)--> DSNT404I SQLCODE = 012, WARNING: THE UNQUALIFIED COLUMN NAME COL3 WAS INT...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Trusted Contexts do not allow ADDRESS wildcarding

To request that DB2 Trusted Context allow wildcarding of TCPID addresses in the ADDRESS attribute.
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Request for improvement in IRLM during crash of DB2

Last weekend, we had the incident described in cases TS015424759 and TS015422058 in which an HPU job that went out of memory while having a latch holded causing DB2 outage. This caused a major business impact because the IRLM did not crash and lef...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

SHUTDOWN DB2 WHEN RACF EXIT FAILURE

After RACF EXIT is abending and failing , DB2 is changing back to Native DB2 Auth checking , If you migrated to RACF exit this can lead to unwanted behavior , we would want a ZPARM or OPTION to make DB2 shutdown if the RACF EXIT is not wokring
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Db2 image copies to S3 storage

With new storage technologies available, it would be nice if Db2 utilities could write image copies directly to S3 storage.
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

REBUILD INDEX utility enhancement

Enhance the REBUILD INDEX SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility to create a shadow copy of the index, then switch it over on completion.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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