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Db2 for z/OS

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DSNTIJXZ should create complete DSNTIDxx member

DSNTIJXZ currently produces a DSNTIDxx member that has a lot of default values, like BSDS name, WLM environments, etc. To be really useful, all relevant values need to be extracted from the running system in order to avoid hunting down actual valu...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Db2 for z/OS: Change SETCURRENTVERSION via Reorg

Now, the Repair Utility with option SETCURRENTVERSION has to be used, to change all v0 tables to the highestVersion. Unfortunately this action is not concurrent. It would be better to have the the opportunity to do that with an online reorg.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Separate workfile allocation into different latches

Currently, the WACT latch governs all workfile allocation usage. When the customer ran workload failover testing, the WACT latch proved to be a bottleneck. Root cause analysis determined that the bottleneck came from the fact that multiple types o...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Authorization for ALTER Commands at schema level

Our DBA team receives countless requests to reset sequence values for our developers. This is a tedious task that should be a self-service task for our developers. We need some mechanism to allow our developers the ability to alter these sequences...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Create an API for IFI reads (306) so Log-Reading Software does NOT need to be APF-Authorized

Like a lot of shops, we replicate a lot of our Enterprise data from our programmatic Db2 for z/OS environment to other Db2s and other off-platform DBMSes for MI and analytics, and for high availability. IIDR now provides the ability to do this via...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Generate async IFCID 317 with async IFCID 316

When DB2 writes an asynchronous IFCID 316 record, there is no way to obtain the complete SQL statement text because it is no longer in the dynamic statement cache. We need for DB2 to make the SQL statement text available in an asynchrounous IFCID ...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

MERGECOPY only a subset of incremental ICs

System: Db2 for z/OS - UTILITY - MERGECOPYActor: DBA MERGECOPY is used to merge Full IC with Incrementals to build new Full which is far more faster to recover than full + set of incrementals. Merging a subset of incrementals (from the date of ful...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

PHASE II : Support for python ibm_db driver on z/OS using z ODBC driver

The requirement is to offer connectivity to Db2 on z/OS natively by using the z/OS ODBC driver. The python driver has been enhanced to successfully compile on the z/OS platform, and basic validation and regression suite validation has been done. W...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration