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Db2 for z/OS

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Rename Foreign Key

Up to now a RENAME FOREIGN KEY is only possible by dropping and re-creating it, thus asking for a CHECK UTILITY to be run.The enhancement of the ALTER to a RENAME would make those actions superfluous and would be much faster.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Stop of utilities during migration except for SYSADM

During Migration it would be nice to turn off all utilities through a DB2 issued online command except for utilities submitted by SYSADM. This would guarantee that utilities would not be able to run during the migration on any datasharing member b...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CAF plan name new feature

There are applications that have hardcoded the plan name in their programs using CAF. In some cases, it is wide spread that it will take a lot of work coding and testing due to program change. To avoid the cost of coding and testing, can there be ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

For Modify Utility, enhance to allow selecting SYSCOPY rows by TYPE (full, incremental) and DSN pattern (DBP.DB2.ICWKY*), Modify should also delete rows where there are no media.

Need to delete rows for Incremental ICs which are kept 14 days while the Fulls are 30 days. Can't do that using the current product.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

OPTIMIZER IGNORE INDEX indexcreator.indexname

Looking to replace NPI with DPSI. DSPI is created, and would like to verify that all SQLs that were using NPI, when Rebound/executed dynamically would either a) use either newly created DPSI or another index on the table and b) have run time perfo...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhancement request to turn off DB2 security

Could we get a ZPARM that allows the deactivation of DB2 security in favor of a security product (ie. RACF). It would be nice if RACF was the ONLY authoritative source for security requests. Currently if a result isn't returned by RACF, DB2 checks...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Give the option to make an index "invisible" to DB2

Sometimes, when I have added and index, I have had some surprises in the optimizer using that index when it should not. I would like a quick way to make the index "invisible" to the optimizer and make it not eligible for access paths until I speci...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow for an option in the syntax of a (compiled scalar) SQL function to use RELEASE(DEALLOCATE).

Thread reuse and High performance DBATs are dependent on packages being bound with RELEASE(DEALLOCATE). But, there is no provision for the package associated with compiled SQL scalar functions to have RELEASE(DEALLOCATE) as an option. I have been ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhance the DISPLAY LOG COMMAND to show if a specific active log dataset belonging to one member of a data sharing group is allocated to 1 or more other members in the data sharing group.

This command would be useful to allow DB2 SYSPROGS/DBAs to see if a specific active log dataset belonging to one member of a data sharing group is allocated to 1 or more other members in the data sharing group. This would allow the REMOVAL PENDING...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 V13 REMOVE LOG command - SET LOG REMOVE LOG

Hi, Please could the DB2 V13 command SET LOG REMOVELOG be updated as follows: 1. An option is provided so the the command either works or fails? We want the option to not have REMOVAL PENDING logs in our BSDS after a SET LOG REMOVELOG command is i...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration