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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...
5 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

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...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release
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Resolve a restriction that CACHE DYN STABILITY function can not use with CONCENTRATE WITH LITERALS option.

Customer environment Db2 V12 <- DRDA -> Db2connect/JDBC(IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ type 2) Server side.(JDBC Type2 is used) Windows server: - WebSphere BASE 9.0.0 (Windows2016) - Db2client / IBM Data Server Runtime Client V11.1...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

LOAD could end with RC=08 when no columns are detailed and lose data after VARCHARs

When a table has a column with varying length (VARCHAR, VARBINARY) and other columns after it, LOAD needs the column description in SYSIN to be loaded correctly, and ends with RC=00 (or RC=04 if remains CopyPend state). But if you forget to explic...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enable discard reorganizations on catalog history tables.

Enabling historization for certain catalog tables can result in very large tables that can be difficult to purge, particularly if they are in LOCKSIZE ROW and without LOCK ESCALATION, as is the case, for example, with the SYSIBM.SYSTABSPACESTATS_H...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Complete PROFILE support for SQL tuning ZPARMS

While modelling a production system it was noticed that the PROFILE support is not 100% up to date and compatible with the actual ZPARMs that the Db2 Optimizer uses. I opened a case TS019778440 and they said "Yes, it is missing, please open an AHA...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

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

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 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Recording full utility statements in Utility History tables (LOB support)

Utility History tables introduced in Db2 13 currently lack the full text of executed statements, which increases the complexity of troubleshooting and auditing processes. It is requested that the product be enhanced to record the entire utility st...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review