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Db2 for z/OS

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Drop Nested SQL Native Procedure or Function without having to drop dependent objects

Would like to be able to drop a native stored procedure or function that has dependent objects without having to also drop the dependent objects (usually another native store procedure).
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Indexing on log

We have tremendous log records populated on production system everyday. But logs are stored in log dataset simply sorted by timestamps even they are for different application events, system events and so on. That leads to bad log reading performan...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Missing "DROP PERIOD" possibility

Regular there is a request that we have to read certain data in a consistent state (e.g. likewise moving customer data from one DB2 environment to another) even while concurrent workload is still active and running in parallel against the same set...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

to determine that the element following the current element is an element in the tables being accessed and not a ‘rename’ and generate an error message

Currently, when compiling a Cobol program if a comma is missing from the second to last field in a SELECT the DB2 pre-compiler will not give an error because it treats the second table element as a 'rename' this creates problems because no error i...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Drop Databases Created by Implicit Mapping Tables

Problem statement/ pain point: We have started to use on-line reorgs without specifying the mapping table because v11 will generate one for you. Pretty cool. Db2 will create a database, DSNnext_db_identity_number, create a table space, create the ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Runstats: additional opti...

Runstats will fail during execution if an object is unavailable or still does not exist (although 'define yes'). Please provide an option to skip those objects and continue with next object.During LISTDEF there is the option e.g. ITEMERROR SKIP to...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add new STATUS codes to SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE to reflect different states of the tablespace

For the person who wants to identify the tablespaces that are in advisory reorg-pending status to collectively identify those tables and include them collectively in a reorganization job.
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Enhance ALTER INDEX that columns can be reordered without drop and recreate

Recently we had a major incidence in production because an automatic bind happened after the drop of an index of a very big table and before the recreate of that index, although the Create used the Option DEFER YES. We wanted to reorder some colum...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Expand loading size of static SQL statement to SPA from 4000 byte to 2MB.

[Request] Expand loading size of static SQL statement to SPA from 4000 byte to 2MB.Guardium S-TAP for Db2 on z/OS uses SPA(Space Block) to capture executed static SQL statement. Currently static SQL statement is loaded only first 4000 bytes of th...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of compression algorithm used by DB2

We have noticed that the compression ratio (PAGESAVE) for first partition of a Partitioned TS is 0% after running an IBM Reorg Utility. The reason why PAGESAVE/compression ratio for that first Partition is 0% is caused because many initial rows in...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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