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Db2 for z/OS

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Add auditing to Db2 profile tables

We need a way to determine who/what/when changed something on the profile tables. DSN_PROFILE_TABLE DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES Current tables have timestamp but it's static. Would be nice to have row change timestamp added so we have both insert and u...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

SQL Tuning Services and full support of Security mechanism 18

We are about to finish the installation of SQL Tuning Services in our sandbox environment. What we learnt last week from Xuqin Zhao at the IBM lab is that the product currently not fully support Security mechanism 18, especially for db2_authid_R -...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Externalisation of Real-Time-Statistics before REORGs dynamic sort space allocation

During our maintenance in the night we use the DSNACCOX suggestions for automated REORGs. These REORGs are using the dynamic allocation of SORT Space. However, these allocation is based on the externalized RTS of the related tablespace. Some of ou...
23 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

the message DSNZ015I should be a warning and not an informational message

running a batch -SET SYSPARM command should end in a CC 0004 if there are parms that are NOT pulled in.
24 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Prevent VPSIZE(0) Bufferpool

The idea would be to have a permission or rule in place to prevent an alter bufferpool to VPSIZE(0). As it can cause major problems.
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Drop indexes with uniquerule P and C

When a tablespace is converted from PBG to PBR or even PBR-PBG-PBR all indexes become non-partitioned. There will not be a solution to convert non-partitioned indexes to partitioned. Instead IBM point to DB24ZOS-I-553 to create new unique indexes ...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Improve ALTER TABLE ROTATE PARTITION

Currently ALTER TABLE ROTATE PARTITION only allows the ENDING value to be a constant, minvalue, or maxvalue. I would suggest adding the ability to generate DATES or TIMESTAMPS so that additional programming is not necessary to generate the ALTER s...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow FOR SYSTEM TIME ALL

If you have system-period temporal table you can query the table (and it's history table) with a period-specification: FOR SYSTEM TIME AS OF timestamp FOR SYSTEM TIME BETWEEN timestamp AND timestamp FOR SYSTEM TIME FROM timestamp TO timestamp ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow WITH UR for SET assignment-statement with row-subselect

Allow The WITH isolation level clause for SET assignment-statement with row-subselect. We need to be able to select data into a global array without imposing a share (or any other) lock.
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Db2 could support the UPDATE option for Db2 z/OSMF workflows

whenever an RSUyymm maintenance makes significant changes to a install job and/or workflow member it gets regenerated via the UPDATE option which should result in a quicker turn around less prone to error Note: found a similar request made in 2022...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review