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Db2 for z/OS

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Adding new values to CHECK Constraints should not put Table in CHECK PENDING

There are many instances today when existing CHECK Constraints have to be modified to add additional values. Currently, making any modifications to CHECK Constraints to add or remove values requires that the Constraint be dropped and re-created. T...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow customers to specify a name for SYSINSTL ID instead of forcing "SYSINSTL"

Currently, IBM allows customers to install Db2 for z/OS under Install SYSOPR authority. This requires that the customer specify "SYSINSTL" as the installer ID in several key steps of the DB2 Install CLIST. "SYSINSTL" is then used for definition of...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Clarify message DSNX905I to distinguish type of DB2 Procedure or Function abend

Allow for automation of rules to identify if a START PROCEDURE or START FUNCTION should be issued to respond to the outage.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow the setting of a global option make LOAD jobs fail if a PRESORT cannot be performed

UET will be withdrawn from support next year and its use needs to be removed. To do this the newly provided support for the PRESORT keyword in the LOAD utility needs to be the same and consistent as the functionality that UET provided for PRESORT....
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add support for PDS input files to PRESORT in LOAD

The Utilities Enhancement Tool (UET) provides support for the PRESORT keyword for LOAD. It will sort the input file and pass it to LOAD to perform the LOAD. It will accept the input file as being a PDS and perform a PRESORT. UET will be withdrawn ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Include SYSPACKSTMT.STMT_ID in GET DIAGNOSTICS data

The SQL Standard for GET DIAGNOSTICS includes details about the actual statement being diagnosed - COMMAND_ FUNCTION / _CODE and DYNAMIC_FUNCTION / _CODE. The Db2 implementation includes none of these. Making it, effectively, impossible to identif...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support DECFLOAT in COBOL

DECFLOAT was introduced in DB2 9 and has just recently been enhanced to be usable in indexes. However the datatype is not supported in COBOL and FORTRAN and only "tolerated" in REXX (as a DOUBLE and then without NAN, SNAN or INFINITY). As a mainfr...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

A new DB2 option to allow Customers to determine when waiters or blockers should be killed

A new DB2 option is needed to allow Customers to determine when waiters or blockers should be killed.Granularity is required based on profile tables specifying connection type,exclusion list, business value, effort to rollback.
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable alter partition values on XML tables

We use a lot of XML tables today on our environment. We need to alter the limitkey defined for partitions in DB2. According to the manual, the DB2 correct behavior is to return sqlcode -109 when alter table partition (XML TABLE) is executed.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 REST service should support ‘Using ARRAY data type as INPUT parm in a Native SQLPL’

We have a SQLPL with ARRAY type as INPUT/OUTPUT parm. REST Service allows to ‘create’ as service calling ‘SQLPL with ARRAY type as INPUT parm’ but throws error while calling the same service. Method :POST Scheme://HOST[“.” PORT][PATH][“?”QUE...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists