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Db2 for z/OS

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SQL Data Insights should show outliers relative to all rows in the table

Currently the AI_SIMILARITY function only shows outliers with respect to a specific entity in the table. There should be a way to determine outliers taking into account all rows in the table. This would be benificial in the case of fraud detection...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow Db2 ESAF interface with IMS to use PSB in place of loadmodule

Currently when a thread is created between IMS->Db2 the Db2 ESAF exit uses the Load module name to link to a plan name of the same name (or another name if using RTT load module). In a test environment there may be a scenario where sever...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance TRANSLATE working on character basis

The current TRANSLATE function is working on Byte Basis which is OK for EBCDIC but not for Unicode Data. Please provide a similar function as SUBSTRING which is working on character basis regardless of Underlying codepage! PMR23932,060,618
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Load Format Internal needs to validate if columns of internal format record is compatible with the table being loaded.

Load Format Internal needs to validate if columns of internal format record is compatible with the table being loaded. Recently this was partially addressed with APAR# PI71965; however, this APAR only checks if the record is greater than the maxim...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Migration z/OSMF Workflow Auto Discovery Of System Variables

The current z/OSMF workflow would require that for each DB2 subsystem migration that the DSNTINST CLIST would have to be re-executed and the DSNTIDxx PDS member be populated with the current information for the subsystem to be migrated. There is a...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

DSN1COPY to support LOB INLINE COPY as input

More than 80% of our data consist of LOB data. In case of drop recovery we depend on utilities such as DSN1COPY. Without this feature provided DSN1COPY cannot be used for drop recovery when we have to use a LOB INLINE COPY as input.
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support INLINE xml column

Asking for INLINE LENGTH for XML column like LOB column. It will make more efficient the work for short XML's.
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to work with page size other than 16K for xml tablespace

Today, xml table space must work with page size of 16K. We are asking the ability for all pagesizes, especially 32k to make the i/o more efficient.
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support partition level for PENDING DEFINITION CHANGES after altering to PAGENUM RELATIVE

When altering a table/table space and the state is PENDING DEFINITION CHANGES, in the most of the times we have to reorg the entire object. It take a lot of time and a lot of disk space for the shadow. Of course we do it with SORTDATA NO RECLUSTER...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add catalog information about how a compression dictionary was created (INSERT, LOAD, REORG)

Db2 is able to create a compression dictionary by INSERT, LOAD and REORG. If INSERT and LOAD are responsible, than the first x rows were not compressed (Db2 reads them to build a proper dictionary). If REORG is responsible for creating a compressi...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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