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Db2 for z/OS

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Customer would like to know if there is a plan to include ZIIP processing for DB2 using Batch and CICS in future releases of DB2.

Customer would like to know if there is a plan to include ZIIP processing for DB2 using Batch and CICS. This would be beneficial to us and our CPU consumption and costs. Has a request been made already to allow ZIIP processing for DB2 via Batch? H...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow FOR SYSTEM TIME ALL

If you have system-period temporal table you can query the table (and it's history table) with a period-specification: FOR SYSTEM TIME AS OF timestamp FOR SYSTEM TIME BETWEEN timestamp AND timestamp FOR SYSTEM TIME FROM timestamp TO timestamp ...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Limit access to stop audit traces

We suggest that audit traces including class 11 can only be stopped be authids authorized to access the Db2 audit policy profile by a z/OS® security product. For compliance reasons (e.g. PCI DSS), we need to be able to document activities perf...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

UUID support

Provide support for UUIDs. Eg - function to create , format and default value for column.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow WITH UR for SET assignment-statement with row-subselect

Allow The WITH isolation level clause for SET assignment-statement with row-subselect. We need to be able to select data into a global array without imposing a share (or any other) lock.
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Modify redirected recovery to recover FROM tablespace where you can SELECT/UNLOAD and not require RECOVERAUTH.

The relatively new Db2 utility enhancement of redirected recovery is very useful When recovering a target tablespace from another tablespace one must essentially have database RECOVERAUTH on the source tablespace and the target tablespace. (please...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

New ZPARM for SYSTIMESENSITIVE Bind Option

Please reference CASE TS005056787 ( Temporal Table access path in Plan_Table does not match dynamic explain). This bind option which is set for using a Temporal Timestamp Register was set with a DEFAULT to YES by IBM for all binds that exclude thi...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

static SQL with DGTT and REOPT(ALWAYS) should be traced by IFCID 401

We realized that not all static SQLs are captured by DB2 to be put into IFI buffers (IFCID 401) I'm referring to static SQL related to packages bound with REOPT(ALWAYS) and DGTTs statements. For REOPT(ALWAYS) packages, only statements not affec...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DB2 enhancement for REUSASID=YES

Please add functionality for REUSASID=YES to DB2 product. REUSASID=YES is not currently supported by DB2 z/OS. Since DB2 does not support REUSASID=YES, the ASID is not reusable until IPL.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Request for improvement in IRLM during crash of DB2

Last weekend, we had the incident described in cases TS015424759 and TS015422058 in which an HPU job that went out of memory while having a latch holded causing DB2 outage. This caused a major business impact because the IRLM did not crash and lef...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release