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Db2 for z/OS

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Provide an easy way to de-allocate the underlying Linear dataset when needed without dropping and recreating table spaces and index spaces.

Component: DDL? Data Definition Language? There are cases when a table has change its usage and may remain empty for a very long time or not use anymore but still required to be defined in Db2. In this case, it would be good to have a better way o...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSNRLMTxx resource limit tables need column for WLM Reporting Group

The DSNRLMTxx resource limit tables aremissing column for WLM Reporting Group. This would allow for resource consumption to be managed at the WLM Reporting Group level (rather than at the userid level, for instance. As WLM is the best method of ma...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Expand RETPD in template to 5 digits

RETPD parm in the template should allow 5 digits with a value up to 93000
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Row Change Timesatmp with Precision 12 and Timezone

Row change timestamp is sensitive to changing from daylight savings time to standard time since it doesn't support TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE and other precisions than 6.Applications have two requirements that could be combined and solved by the row ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow separate grantable authoriy for REFRESH MQT

The current authorization to issue a REFRESH TABLE on an MQT is the following (this is true up through and including v12): https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPEK_12.0.0/sqlref/src/tpc/db2z_sql_refreshtable.html The privilege set for...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Query Nodes - Allow Certain Members of a DB2 Group to Process Queries Against OLTP Data Without Interfering with OLTP

In a DB2 for z/OS data-sharing group, allow customers to designate certain DB2 members as "query-only" subsystems. A "query-only" subsystem, or "query node" would process queries for analytics and business intelligence against the same databases a...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Regular Expressions (regex) scalar function

The XMLQUERY function allows the user to use the 'fn:matches' XQuery function, which is great. Please see example UDF which does this... ~~~~~~~~~~--#SET TERMINATOR ! CREATE FUNCTION "UDF_STRING_REGEX_MATCH" ( SEARCHSTRING VARCHAR (50) ) RETURNS S...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

402 VLDB - DB2 Zparm with Variable Options

DB2 Zparm with Variable Options We have a large number of DB2's to maintain.Most of the DB2's run with the same Zparm values except for the following:-Catalog HLQ, IRLM name, ARC HLQ, Member ID, Data sharing detail and DDF detail. If these values ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Long Time to restart DB2 caused by Rollback in SYSIBM.SYSSEQUENCE

As in PMR 94522,250,631:"Yes, it'd good to ask customer to submit a RFE so that this issue can be evaluated by the DB2 development architects. The current DB2 behavior was designed and implemented before SYSIBM.SYSSEQUENCE exists. Thank you very m...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Native UTF-8 Support in Db2 DSNxLI Interfaces

We have some issues with customer's name, as we don't have this special characters in our codepage. So we try to use UTF-8 on the mainframe (as the data is coming raw in as UTF-8). PL/I and COBOL newly supports native UTF-8: COBOL: PIC U, PL/I: UC...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration