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Db2 for z/OS

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Enhance system profile table usage by allowing combination of filtering categories

Using system profile tables to control remote connections/threads is a very useful feature and hence it is more and more used.During our tests, we found out that we have the need to combine DSN_PROFILE_TABLE filtering categories. Currently, for ex...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Db2 zOS: Provide support for period-clause FOR PORTION OF BUSINESS_TIME for update operation within MERGE statement

Idea is to extend functionality of MERGE statement in Db2 z/OS by providing support for the period clause FOR PORTION OF BUSINESS_TIME for an update operation (and delete operation) within the MERGE statement. The statement would look like this: ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

When dropping table retain OBID for when recreating that same table

Any account that utilizes QREP should want this option of retaining OBID
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Stored-Proc ADMIN_UTL_SCHEDULE: Add a Stop-Condition to continue when RC > 12 occurs

When a Db2-Utility started by Stored-Procl ADMIN_UTL_SCHEDULE abends the Reason-Code is passed back as the Return-Code. This happens for example if REORG fails due to problems with allocating SORTWORK-Datasets, especially for big tables, or when i...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 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 ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Repair DBD Utility wont abend with dump while trigger found on a none existing table

regular running check repair DBD on systems. repair dbd abends when a database was found with triggers pointing on tables objects that does not existist any longer.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

UTF8 conversion problem - EBCDIC

Message UTF-8 => After conversion in EBCDIC EBCDIC_STR('Hi, my name is Андрей (Andrei)'); => Hi, my name is \0410\043D\0434\0440\0435\0439 (Andrei) But for the character � (UTF-8 replacement character) the function returns the value X'3F' in...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 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.
almost 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.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration