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One-Fecht Index Scan for SELECT min(), max()

At the moment only a single SELECT min(a) or a SELECT max(a) uses a suitable index I(a, ...). When selecting both, min() and max(), a tablespace scan is used to determine the minimum and maximum value. With large tables this behaviour is very expe...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Db2 V12 Change MODIFY RECOVERY To Delete Non Expired Data Sets

In Db2 V12 MODIFY RECOVERY with DELETEDS, DELETEDS specifies that cataloged image copy data sets are to be deleted when the corresponding SYSCOPY records are deleted. When we run MODIFY RECOVERY with DELETEDS, non-expired disk data sets are ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Is a defect

SQLJ Add support for use of Java Array in IN predicate

We would like to see support of Java type ARRAY for IN-LISTs. The use case would look like: SqljCtx sqljCtx = getSqljCtx(); Array fkpzOfflKtoIdsArray = sqljCtx.getConnection().createArrayOf("TIMESTAMP", fkpzOfflKtoIds); FremdkontoOfflineIterator i...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add DSNTIAUL comments support in SYSIN

We normally use DSNTIAUL with several SELECT statment coming from other applications. We would like to use them in the SYSIN statement but because some of this queries has the comment row that begins with '--' characters, it does not work. To allo...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

INTERPRET Function for Packed-decimal Data

We have some old tables with a CHAR column where we store a record formatted by a Cobol Program. It contains a mix of display data and packed-decimal data. To use that data we have to read it in a Cobol program and interpret it using a Cobol copyb...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Deployment friendly implicit LOB naming

The Db2 feature to implicitly create LOB structures could be very helpfull for us. But we are facing a big problem with the implicitly created objects. Db2 for example names the auxiliary table with an random prefix (as well for LOB tablespace, au...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Index support for "expression op expression"

In our environment, we have many queries with predicate: "expression op expression". As they don't use indexes they're performing a table scan. We would like DB2 to be able to use indexes to resolve this type of predicate. Examples: SELECT [id], [...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

432 VLDB - Reorg to Over-ride/ignore parms

We reorg a list of Tablespaces with a template and use STACK=YES. If a tablespace has an underlying LOB the reorg is abended. The requirement is to not have the REORG abend if the parameters are valid for the base table. SUGGESTION: We would like ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Db2 z/OS real storage management (Case TS006310627)

After the observation of a significantly increase of the CPU consumption in our Db2-MSTR regions, we opened case TS006310627 at IBM since the reason was not evident. The result of the analysis with IBM showed up that probably APAR PH31684 caused t...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

LOCK1-Structure

By drop database with many objects (TS,IX,Part) and a lot of statistic data, it can happen that the Lock1 structure gets full. Other possible reasons for LOCK1-Structure full conditions during DDL (DROP): - Object has to many entries in SYSIBM.SYS...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration