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Db2 for z/OS

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V12-CERT-2017 Refresh VIEW / CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW / VIEW VERSIONING.

While tables can be altered online; views need to be dropped and recreated, resulting in business impact or planned downtimes (our environment is making extensive use of the ANSI SPARC three level architecture, with many views and views on views)....
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

V12-CERT-2017 PBR RPN: Reduce DSSIZE per Partition

With PBR RPN, it is possible to set a DSSIZE for one or more partitions. While it is possible to set a greater DSSIZE for a partition, it is currently not possible to set a DSSIZE smaller than the one for the Tablespace. When setting a smaller DSS...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

PieceMeal Delete without coding application

During CERT (V12-CERT-2017) it was a desire amongst several customers to get a sort of imbedded COMMIT in the new piecemeal DELETE - when running from TSO attachment.-Alternatively to allow procedural language (SQL PL like) syntax in SPUFI/DSNTEP2...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Expand DB2 Profile Wildcard Support to Client Property Parameters

We need DB2 Profile table wildcard support to extend to the client property parameters: CLIENT_APPLNAME, CLIENT_USERID and CLIENT_WRKSTNNAME.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

STOP DATABASE(HHHHH) SPACE(*) RETRY(N)

We would like to have an option to set how much times STOP DB command will retry in order to avoid continues locks on DSNDB06 .SYSTSTSS while trying to STOP DB and update its RTS. Operation in TSO, z/OS, and batch: When the STOP DATABASE command i...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

new DB2 DDL for DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY VARIABLE

DB2 Version 11 introduced the CREATE VARIABLE which allows a DBA (or someone) to define a "variable" which can be used by anyone (for example, in dynamic SQL in batch) This is a useful DB2 object. But, I would like to see the capability to DECLARE...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enable customers running 24/7 to create unique indexes

Our Internet and Mobile applications are used 24/7 and we do not have any batch windows nor any maintenance windows. When creating new indexes on existing tables the a CREATE INDEX operation generates an unwanted outage when created with DEFER NO....
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Change in DSNTIAD code in order to get an abend in case of embedded comments

Our application developers use DSNTIAD to UPDATE tables also in the production environment. If they run a query with DSNTIAD and a comment embedded we'd like the job to abend.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Externalize the IFI abend count

We would like a method to externalize the IFI abend count so we can be proactive about identifying IFI abends and prevent IFI and the monitor trace being disabled. Alternatively there could be a msg externalized when the count gets to various thre...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ODBC connections to z/DB2 should be z/IIP offloaded like JDBC

ODBC connections to DB2 should be offloadable to z/IIP engines in the same way that JDBC connections are. It seems that ODBC has been left behind in this way. This would enhance the abilities of IBM products like FTM on the z platform.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration