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Db2 for z/OS

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Primary Authid etc. in Plan_Table

Add a column where the userid, jobname and the like can be storred. This column should be NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT USER and accordingly populated by explain.
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

produce warning message when local bufferpool reaches DM Threshold

Produce an alert message when local bufferpool reaches DM threshold.
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow DB2 to Insert more than 32KB data into a CLOB column

SQL Server Management Studio, Toad for Oracle allow inserts with more than 32 KB column size but DB2 doesn't allow the same and this is a show stopper for few projects to come into DB2 ZoS as data fixes by application team is not possible in produ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Allow ALTER TABLE ... ROTATE for ARCHIVE TABLES (Type 'R')

We have archive tables to retain old data for up to 8 years using transparent archiving. When we try and Rotate these tables we get SQLCODE -20525: ALTER TABLE DBO.SECURITYLOG_$ARC ROTATE PARTITION FIRST TO LAST ENDING AT ('2020-11-30-23.59.59...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

LOAD Replace improvement for RI tables

We had a Db2 DDL change where a new table "b" was created with a RI constraint to a parent table "a" which was also modified (DROP/CREATE). Table "a" had several rows which were unloaded before the change and loaded back after the DDL changes (LOA...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

New Db2 REST Service Discovery Authority

Since a security loophole was closed it is now only possible to discover REST services via the Db2 supplied Db2ServiceManager API that the user has authority to execute. We feel this goes against the open API economy that we are currently in, wher...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

new fixcat categories in maintenance stream

We would like to have new fixcat categories for security and performance. Currently this is a manual process that is labor intensive and in some cases time prohibitive. New security policies require that we identify fixes that are security or perf...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide incremental progress messages through a DB2 group restart

During a recent DR activity our Db2 had issues during group recovery and it was challenging to determine at what point Db2 had gone as far as it could before requiring the other member to be restarted to resolve any locks RC00C200EB . The MSTR log...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Alter-support for global variables

With DB2 V11 global variables were introduced, but unfortunately no alter-option to change the default. This would be especially beneficial it this enhancement would also include the system-provided global variables. With this enhancement each cus...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Lock Escalation Action zParm for Pre-Escalation

A new zParm that would enable feature in DB2 to: 1) detect request for LOCK ESCALATION2) lookup thread characteristics/criteria in control 'table'3) take action (coded in 'table') based on entry in control 'table', OR take a default action (i.e. d...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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