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Db2 for z/OS

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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

Use OPTHINT for package with version

Db2 uses the following PLAN_TABLE columns when matching rows that specify access paths to SQL statements: QUERYNO , APPLNAME , PROGNAME , VERSION , COLLID , OPTHINT If I use PKGVERSION(AUTO) during precompile I need to change my OPTHINT every time...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 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

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

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

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

to determine that the element following the current element is an element in the tables being accessed and not a ‘rename’ and generate an error message

Currently, when compiling a Cobol program if a comma is missing from the second to last field in a SELECT the DB2 pre-compiler will not give an error because it treats the second table element as a 'rename' this creates problems because no error i...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Revise DSNREXX to allocate specific DB2 load libaries

Allow DSNREXX to have an option that allows allocation of various DB2 load libraties from the init or add call
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Externalise the table name from the "as locator" clause in a create external procedure statement.

This is required to reverse engineer DDL for external stored procedures
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create zparm item to change "VOLATILE" table default for implicit create table

Due to our huge DW/Analytics environment in DB2 z we have a lot of tables created by users without details about tablespace and database, so these tables are created with default values of DB2. However, the NOT VOLATILE is default value and can no...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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