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Enhancement to Quiesce utility: RETRY and DRAIN_WAIT.

If there are applications in a shop that are operating under the goal of 24/7 uptime, including tablespaces that support it, (for example, internet customer usability), a QUIESCE utility can fail to drain writers if there are constant threads conn...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Add New Option MODE(REBIND) support to DSNTIJRT

Please see Case # TS021869500 for complete details. Essentially an IBM-Supplied trigger DSNIBMTS.CONNECTINFOCONSTRAINT is delivered by DSNTIJRT. This object has existed well before Db2 v11. The DSNTIJPE reports (REPORT05 and REPORT06) for Db2 V12,...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow customers to remove entries from the Compression Dictionary Data Set

If we remove a Db2 tablespace from being replicated and has an entry in the CDDS we have no method to remove it. We are trying to automate adding/removing entries from CDC by looking for the change data capture flag on the tablespace, the tablespa...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Please provide a DB2 catalog and directory reorg job in SDSNSAMP.

Please provide a DB2 catalog and directory reorg in job in SDSNSAMP which would contain the appropriate parameters to obtain 85-90% of the maximum performance available from IBM's DB2 Reorg utility. It would be useful for everyone who runs DB2 on ...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Under review

Support passthrough-only expressions in native SQL on Db2 for z/OS

It has been asked for before but at the last GUIDE GSE Germany it was once again discussed. The requirement is for some, at least the REGEXP_% ones, of the passthrough-only expressions to be really supported in Db2 for z/OS native. More and more d...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow Override of Allocated Data Sets in Batch CLIST Input (DSNTIDOM) in DB2 Migration/Install

In Db2 for z/OS, the DSNTIDOM input member defines parameter values that control how the installation/migration/function‑level activation CLIST generates tailored JCL jobs and artifacts when run in batch mode. DSNTIDOM corresponds to the panel fie...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Inherit COMPRESS attribute from base table space partition for XML table spaces

We figured out that Db2 only uses the top level or table sace COMPRESS attribute for the DDL of the XML table space instead of using the partition level COMPRESS attribute.Because we have large XML table spaces we want them to be compressed. XML p...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Reconsidering the Db2 restriction that prevents execution of an alter column set default type when a table is referenced by a view.

From a DBA's perspective changing the default value of a column is a metadata change that does not alter the column definition, data type, length, nullability, or structure of the table. Existing data remains unchanged, and dependent views continu...
15 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

GROUP BY Sort Improvement

The current GROUP BY ordering processing requires huge workfile for large records, data is read once for ordering and again for grouping purpose. To improve performance, this processing could be done in SORT where it collapses records earlier and ...
16 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow multiple packages with copy collection

We have a collection for our DB2 Connect packages bound that we would like to be able to copy without having to code one copy per package. Change the copy command to allow all packages in a collection to be included in one command. Example COPY PA...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review