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PLANNAME and PROGNAME in error-message if PROGAUTH(ENABLE) error

Hi When a program fails e.g. with reasoncode 00F3003B, I want to see in the error message, which row DB2 tried to find in SYSIBM.DSNPROGUATH, i.e. I need program- nad planname.
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Drop Nested SQL Native Procedure or Function without having to drop dependent objects

Would like to be able to drop a native stored procedure or function that has dependent objects without having to also drop the dependent objects (usually another native store procedure).
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Alter (global) VARIABLE command

It is not possible to ALTER a global variable, it is necessary to do DROP + re-CREATE it. And previously we must DROP all the objects that depends on it: PROCEDURE, FUNCTION, TRIGGER, VIEWS ..., and the packages are marked as invalid. After havin...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

CHECK DATA for informational referential constraints

We use informational referential constraints, i.e. foreign keys defined as NOT ENFORCED for some relationships between tables. When running the CHECK DATA utility for a table with foreign keys defined as NOT ENFORCED the foreign keys are not check...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Access data of SP's WLM DSSPRINT DD in execution time when called from external program (ex. Cobol)

Hi IBM, We opened CASE TS003473597 to treat this issue but as we did not have solution from you we decide to ask it by "new idea". So we have some maintenance COBOL programs that make the call to the SP DSNUTILU to run some db2 utilities, so then ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Skip the zombie service instances when terminating ego service after having signaled and waited for a configurable time interval

Our observation, as it takes us forever to complete the termination of an ego service with zombie processes. Symphony termination action stuck with the ego service instance process tree when there is a zombie process exist. The only way of workaro...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Allow for clear text NEWAUTHID in SYSIBM.USERNAMES

We use SYSPROC.DSNLEUSR to encrypt usernames and passwords that are stored in the DSNLEUSR table, The procedure encrypts both NEWAUTHID and PASSWORD. It becomes difficult to manage the SYSIBM.USERNAMES table as we cannot see the NEWAUTHID in clear...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reduce restrictions of ADD PARTITION

“ALTER TABLE ADD PARTITION” is not available when target table holds uncommitted(not materialized) definition change. In most cases “MAXVALUE” is selected as limit key value because Partitioned-Table of TABLE-CONTROL cannot hold data exceeded the ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Improve the flexibility of changing PARTITION key

When to change PARITITION keys in multiple PARTITIOIN, a validation routine to check the data consistency runs every time ALTER command (ALTER TABLE ALTER PARTITION) is executed. In most cases we change the key value for multiple PARTITION keys an...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Preventing DBD Lock when changing PARTITION key

There’s a possibility that status becomes AREOR when PARTITION key in PBR is changed by “ALTER TABLE ALTER PARTITION”. We strongly request you to revise the function NOT to set DBD Lock at this moment. It’s hard to say that changing PARTITION key ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release