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Db2 for z/OS

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    Authorization for ALTER Commands at schema level

    Our DBA team receives countless requests to reset sequence values for our developers. This is a tedious task that should be a self-service task for our developers. We need some mechanism to allow our developers the ability to alter these sequences...
    over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Indexing on log

    We have tremendous log records populated on production system everyday. But logs are stored in log dataset simply sorted by timestamps even they are for different application events, system events and so on. That leads to bad log reading performan...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Simple and fast recovery of DB2 CF structures.

    Currently there is a list of steps on what to do in case of failures in DB2 CF structures.These structures are vitally important for DB2 Data Sharing. I suggest having a single command that allows quick and easy error recovery for these DB2 struct...
    about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Drop Databases Created by Implicit Mapping Tables

    Problem statement/ pain point: We have started to use on-line reorgs without specifying the mapping table because v11 will generate one for you. Pretty cool. Db2 will create a database, DSNnext_db_identity_number, create a table space, create the ...
    almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Enhance the TO_DATE scalar function for source data in week dependant format data

    With the TO_CHAR scalar function i can convert a "normal" date format to a week dependant format.e.g. select to_char('30.03.2017', 'IYYY.IW.ID') from sysibm.sysdummy1 delivers 2017.13.4; fourth isoday (thursday) in week 13 of year 2017. The invers...
    about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Rebuild should materialize pending changes on indexes

    Recently we had big problems with index splits. Therefore we altered the bufferpool from 4K-pages to 8K-pages and run a rebuild. But we had to ran a reorg on the whole tablespace, which has about 1 billion rows and a few indexes, which we wanted t...
    about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    options itemerror

    I'd like to see any error handled by the itemerror parm of the options utility. Currently it only handles those errors that cause a RC8. If it is an unavailable resource or something else that causes an abend the step will abend rather than proces...
    over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Allow the DECLARE-part of a cursor in EXPLAIN

    Over the years options you can use in a cursor were enhanced more and more, but you still can only explain the SELECT-clause of the cursor. But sometimes access path are considerably different, if you use a rowset cursor.
    about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    REPAIR CATALOG TABLESPACE command for xml table space

    We are working with OBJECT_CREATE_FORMAT=EXTENDED and with UTILITY_OBJECT_CONVERSION=NOBASIC for a long time without any problem. In the last time we began to work with these parameters in other DB2's that include many tables with XML columns. The...
    almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

    PHASE II : Support for python ibm_db driver on z/OS using z ODBC driver

    The requirement is to offer connectivity to Db2 on z/OS natively by using the z/OS ODBC driver. The python driver has been enhanced to successfully compile on the z/OS platform, and basic validation and regression suite validation has been done. W...
    over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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