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    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

    Prevent immediate reflection of PARTITION key changes

    When changing partition key of PBR using ALTER TABLE ALTER PARTITION, it may take effect immediately without AREOR status under certain conditions, so please provide an option to allow PARTITION key changes to be reflected in the AREOR state upon ...
    over 1 year 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

    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

    redirection and compatibility between 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4.0_64’ and 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4’ in 7.1.2 and that in 7.3

    From: Dennis Xiao <dxiao@ca.ibm.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 4:28 PM To: Stuart, James <james.stuart@ubs.com>; Jeff Karmiol <jkarmiol@ca.ibm.com> Cc: Liao, Jiabin <jiabin.liao@ubs.com>; Qiu, David <david.qiu@ubs.co...
    over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Submitted

    Request for improvement in IRLM during crash of DB2

    Last weekend, we had the incident described in cases TS015424759 and TS015422058 in which an HPU job that went out of memory while having a latch holded causing DB2 outage. This caused a major business impact because the IRLM did not crash and lef...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

    IFI READS support for IFCID 0417

    Can you extend IFI READS support for IFCID 0417. I see that it's cut at either STATIME_MAIN or STATIME_DDF intervals. I'm wondering if IFCID 0417 will be eligible for IFI READS, similar to IFCIDs 365, 411, and 412.
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    sqlcode -803 INSERT precheck

    Looking at DB2 log when a SQLCODE -803 duplicate key condition occurs in an INSERT often leads to a rollback of the change already made to the tablespace and/or in the non unique indexes defined against the affected table. Would it be possible to ...
    almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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