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Db2 for z/OS

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Enhance display utility command

It would be useful to be able to determine if a utility (such as REORG) is safe to terminate w/o forcing a recovery. I'd like to see if it's using a shrlevel other than NONE.
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Multiple PROFILE tables with suffix

In the same datasharing group we have members with similar but not identical DDF workload. From an application server same AUTHID runs with 100 DBAT but in another member with 500 DBAT. If we had a chance to use multiple PROFILE tables as like RLF...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

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...
over 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...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Option to disable implicit database creation

A new Zparm which disables the possibility to create the implicit created databases which was implemented in DB2 9.Database name e.g. DSN00001
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 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...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DB2 enhancement of global transaction processing

We have COBOL batch procedure started on z/OS that gets always abend for SQL error -911 . The Cobol Host program1 does DB2 SP in order to transfer control on MicroFocus COBOL on linux and then return on z/OS by doing another SP call where another ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

DSNTEP2 OUTPUT LENGTH

I would have a DSNTEP2 version with the output lenth 4096 bytes. Unfortunately I don't have the PLI compiler. Can you compile a DSNTEP2 version with the output legth 4096 and send me the load module so I can link edit an bind it . Many many thanks...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 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
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Missing "DROP PERIOD" possibility

Regular there is a request that we have to read certain data in a consistent state (e.g. likewise moving customer data from one DB2 environment to another) even while concurrent workload is still active and running in parallel against the same set...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration