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Db2 for z/OS

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externalize stop command failure

objects remain in STOPP when stop fails with no indication that it failed. a manual start followed by a manual stop is required to cause the object to proceed to a stop state. it's unfortunate, that issuing a start is required since that will allo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Enhance package dependency quiescing/locking behavior of EXCHANGE

Enhance package dependency quiescing/locking behavior of EXCHANGE, so it will be possible to exchange base- and clone-table in parallel to (many) transactions reading one of these tables in parallel .
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance system profile table usage by allowing combination of filtering categories

Using system profile tables to control remote connections/threads is a very useful feature and hence it is more and more used.During our tests, we found out that we have the need to combine DSN_PROFILE_TABLE filtering categories. Currently, for ex...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Apply security restriction in Db2 table only via database connector tools (but not from database objects)

There are few use cases where Db2 table access must be restricted only from DB connector tools(eg; SPUFI, QMF or DSE in IDz or any other DB visualizer) but not from the database object itself. To explain further, we do have home grown tools(x1) us...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Log volume SYSUTILX

We have very large LOB objects (e.g. nnTBs). Due to the change (delete/insert/update) pattern of our applications, we have to use incremental image copies (IIC) very often to ensure recoverability for these objects. IIC for LOB objects generate lo...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reset an invalidated statement level optimization hint

If a statement level optimization hint was invalidated for whatever reason one has to repeat the whole process to get the same hint again.
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

VIRTUAL_INDEX_USED column in plan table

MR0218096957 GGDB208030Mark all rows of a statement in the plan_table with an Y in a new column VIRTUAL_INDEX_USED when a dependency to a virtual index exists.
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Open Cursor with Hold

MR021809690 GGDB208033Add a new thread based accounting-class-2- and a package based accounting-class-7 counter ????????????????????????OPEN CURSOR WITH HOLD???????????????????????? which will be incremented whenever a OPEN statement with option H...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Update DB2 (DDF) to use a stronger Hash Algorithm in the DDF global authentication cache feature

Presently, DB2 DDF is using MD5 Hashing in the DDF global authentication cache feature. This hashing cipher is long considered weak and guidance is that it should no longer be used. We ask IBM to consider a change to DB2 to up level this feature t...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

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