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Db2 for z/OS

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Allow BIND EXPLAIN(ONLY) use virtual indexes

It would be very helpful if Db2 allowed (optionally) to use virtual indexes when BIND with EXPLAIN(ONLY) is performed. This can be an additional BIND parameter on whether or not use virtual indexes. This option will eliminate/reduce a need in thir...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Change DSNTINST CLIST to allow temporary TSO/E EDIT datasets 'userid.editutil%' allocated on non-EVA volumes

Currently DSNTINST clist abends when using TSO/E EDIT macro that is unable to use temp datasets on EAV volumes.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Change Image Copy To Avoid Opening Db2 Data Sets When Making Conditional Image Copies

Our IBM Image Copy jobs are driving 10s of thousands of Db2 data set opens while doing conditional image copies. During our daily batch cycle the vast majority of the data set opens are not needed as there was no activity for the objects stored in...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

include a new READS IFCID for all in-doubt thread display

display Indoubt thread informations that are required to take further steps such as commit/rollback and how to reset the status.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Remove the OBID limitations in the workfile database

Aapplication threads that perform OPEN / FETCH / CLOSE many many times in a loop without performing a COMMIT can exhaust the OBID limit and suffer SQLCODE -497 From a recent SR....... We see in the dump a SELECT statement using insensitive scrolla...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Push up of local predicat...

In PMR 89848.077.724 you see an example that the DB2 optimizer is not able to push out local predicates that are specified in the correlated subquery to the parent query block. The predicates AND "AVADMIN"."TLORM_DBFE"."MANDANT" = ? AND "AVADMIN"....
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Suppport temporal tables in combination with row permission

Row permission should be supported for temporal tables. We use temporal tables to track the history of records. This works. We now like to expand our database to a multitenancy database with security control by row permission. This does not work, ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

assigning Queryno in Native SP SQLs

Hi,Native Stored Procedure SQLs have no Queryno assigned in Plan_table. All SQLs appear as queryno 1 , no matter how many of them specified in SP. It creates inconvenience in researching access path for SQL statement , as well as impossible to ass...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

ACCUMACC for CICS transactions

ACCUMACC exists to aggregate accounting records for DDF transactions. It would be nice to have the same functionnality with classic transactions (CICS/IMS ..) because it reflects a today usage of these transaction monitoring systems. Without these...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PIVOT/UNPIVOT functions in DB2 for z/OS

Currently, the DB2 for z/OS SQL does not support any functions for PIVOTING / UNPIVOTING data. This results in extremely complex SQL whenever a matrxi/cross tab report is required. Such reports are very common in open systems databases.
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration