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Db2 for z/OS

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DB2 must not abend RC00F3040A when allied address spaces goes on end-of-memory in must complete operations or holding latch

In case of an allied address space going on end-of-memory with its agents are in must complete operation or still holding any latch, DB2 subsystem must be able to handle this situation keeping the data integrity not abending 04F RC00F3040A.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SQL Data Insights should show outliers relative to all rows in the table

Currently the AI_SIMILARITY function only shows outliers with respect to a specific entity in the table. There should be a way to determine outliers taking into account all rows in the table. This would be benificial in the case of fraud detection...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Remove MEMBER keyword from BIND PLAN command

It is to prevent creation of such obsolete plans - they immediately get rebound generating default collections so why allowing it in the first place? In some environments implementing strict security is not possible so preventing some actions may...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Build Compression Dictionary on Insert, if triggered by update or delete

There is already code that a compression dictionary is built, if rows are inserted into an empty partition. A compression dictionary is however not created if these inserts are triggered by update-statements, e.g. if you update on of the partition...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Exclude TEMPLATE utility from IFCID 3

As for each call of the TEMPLATE utility an accounting record is written and as we use lots of TEMPLATE utilities, the overall utility accounting records are diluted. So we need the possibility to exclude the SMF data for TEMPLATE utility calls fr...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Additional Option to 'Act...

The command 'activate function level ... ' with and without option TEST checks if a Function Level is eligible for the group. However members that are quiesced or failed etc.. are not included in the check. Please provide an additional option to a...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

IFI READS support for IFCID 105

IFCID 105 contains information needed to map DBID/OBID values to object names. This information is produced on the STATS interval and contains mapping for EVERY object currently open to DB2. On large systems, thousands of IFCID 105 records may be ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Removing must-have field specification list in case of UNLOAD SPANNED YES restriction

We propose to remove the Db2 UNLOAD Utility restriction, that the UNLOAD statement must include a field specification list thatspecifies all LOB and XML data at the end of the record, if SPANNED YES is specified.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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.
over 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.
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration