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    UNLOAD Utility should have the ability to generate IGNOREFIELDS YES

    This is a manual effort using INSYNCH to add this to the load cards
    almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Unload should generate the correct load cards to load Temporal Base Tables

    Currently the unload utility generates load cards with Temporal Column Names having different names as the DB2 catalog. This causes the load to generate new values for ROW BEGIN, ROW END, TRANSACTION START ID which is incorrect. Having INSYNCH sof...
    almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Remove the limit on the number of secondary IDs

    The documentation states: If RACF is active and the “list of groups” option is active, the routine sets the list of Db2 secondary IDs to the list of group names to which the RACF user ID is connected. The maximum number of groups is 1012. Since RA...
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    AREO Status via select

    Some ddl Changes are in table SYSPENDINGDDL Some ddl Changes are not there: for example alter table add column can only be see via -dis db() sp() adv It would be better to have the same bahavior for all ddl changes with AREO* Status.Maybe it could...
    almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    allow CREATE FUNCTION with RETURNS TABLE to use SQLPL

    Today (in V12 <and maybe earlier>) it is possible CREATE FUNCTION using SQLPL and RETURN a value (of any data type). This is pretty cool.. and powerful. This is useful to perform complex SQLPL operations inside the UDF (LANGUAGE SQL). For ex...
    almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Allow all access paths in a cursor with FOR UPDATE

    Due to the haloween-problem, some access paths are blocked for cursors with the FOR UPDATE-clause. Also for multi-row-fetch and FOR UPDATE there are restrictions if there is a IN-subquery
    almost 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Enhancement ALTER of STOGROUP to be NO-DISRUPTIVE change.

    As we all know to perform an ALTER DB.TS/IX USING STOGROUP XXXXX a STOP/ALTER/START process is required which is a DISRUPTIVE change. So, looking for an enhancement on that ALTER process maybe it could be "improved" by putting the involved Db2 obj...
    about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Delay the insert into PLAN_TABLE, if EXPLAIN MODE is YES

    We want to use SET CURRENT EXPLAIN MODE = YES in long running jobs like DSNTIAUL or DSNTEP2 to get more information, what was going on. If these jobs only ran select-statements a long running UOR is generated, because the insert of the access path...
    about 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    UUID support

    Provide support for UUIDs. Eg - function to create , format and default value for column.
    about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Allow ALTER TABLE ... ROTATE for ARCHIVE TABLES (Type 'R')

    We have archive tables to retain old data for up to 8 years using transparent archiving. When we try and Rotate these tables we get SQLCODE -20525: ALTER TABLE DBO.SECURITYLOG_$ARC ROTATE PARTITION FIRST TO LAST ENDING AT ('2020-11-30-23.59.59...
    about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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