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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

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

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 ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement of compression algorithm used by DB2

We have noticed that the compression ratio (PAGESAVE) for first partition of a Partitioned TS is 0% after running an IBM Reorg Utility. The reason why PAGESAVE/compression ratio for that first Partition is 0% is caused because many initial rows in...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSNB328I to be issued when all attempts to automatically recover GRECP are exhausted in all scenarios

During DR testing on several occassions the DBAs at Walmart have found that there are circumstances where neither DSNB328I nor DSNB317I are issued and Db2 z/OS has exhausted all tries to automatically recover GRECPs. In these scenarios they were s...
over 6 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 Future consideration

Return SQL error when DBA attempts ALTER DDL with both pending and immediate changes, instead of returning "0" and "losing" a change.

We recently opened an SR TS005591497 with support when we found that an ALTER to a LOB tablespace specifying both PRIQTY and COMPRESS returned SQLCODE 0, but the PRIQTY was "lost". IBM support pointed out the following: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Is a defect

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

Enhance Auditpolicy OBJMA...

Please enhance auditpolicy OBJMAINT to support auditing for object creates.
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow Multiple Dataset Inputs to DSN1PRNT

Allow more than 1 input dataset for use with the DSN1PRNT stand-alone utility. This would function as a concatenated list under the SYSUT1 DD.
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration