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Maintain Target Capacity Supportive for scheduled demand

To descrease the launching instance time, PIMCO use scheduled request for spot instance a lot. However Amazon EC2 terminates Spot Instances when they are interrupted. We request to support Maintain Target Capacity feature for spot fleet to maintai...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Better error message when using incorrect dataset for recover tocopy

A PGR table with 5 partition have a combination of full Image copier and partition image copies. executing RECOVER TABLESPACE userid.table DSNUM ALL TOCOPY hlq.DB2.IC.userid.table.PART4 gave this error DSNUCATO - TOCOPY DATASET NOT FOUND but the d...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Expanding Messages DSNB355I and DSNB356I

MSG DSNB355I / DSNB356I did not give information for the affected object and page. So any reaction and reason search on these Messages is not possible. Please expand the message information for the object information with DBID.PSID.#partno.#pageno.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

MERGECOPY only a subset of incremental ICs

System: Db2 for z/OS - UTILITY - MERGECOPYActor: DBA MERGECOPY is used to merge Full IC with Incrementals to build new Full which is far more faster to recover than full + set of incrementals. Merging a subset of incrementals (from the date of ful...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add timestamp to all -DISPLAY command outputs

More and more companies are using multiple DISPLAY commands to track for problems or usage statistics etc. The problem is that the TIMESTAMP when the command was issued is not in the output (apart from DISPLAY BLOCKERS) It would be really good to ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Unique Index, where one specific value can be duplicate

MR0125102749 GGDB209018Enhance the create index similar to the UNIQUE WHERE NOT NULL clause
almost 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Load Format Internal needs to validate if columns of internal format record is compatible with the table being loaded.

Load Format Internal needs to validate if columns of internal format record is compatible with the table being loaded. Recently this was partially addressed with APAR# PI71965; however, this APAR only checks if the record is greater than the maxim...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Sample job for RECOVER of catalog and directory

Db2 deliver a sample job (DSNTIJIC) to COPY the catalog and directory. If we have to RECOVER one or more of these jobs it is vital that they are recovered in the right order and the right way. As this is so important Db2 should include a sample jo...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Provide possibility to alter a COLUMN from NOT NULL to NULL and vice versa

A table was defined with COLUMN A NOT NULL but it is not posssible to remove the NOT NULL clause afterwards!
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance DSN1COMP to allow more than one input per job step

Currently only one full copy image may be included in each job step //jobname JOB acct information//COMPEST EXEC PGM=DSN1COMP,PARM='FULLCOPY'//STEPLIB DD DSN=prefix.SDSNLOAD,DISP=SHR//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A//SYSABEND DD SYSOUT=A//SYSUT1 DD DSN=COPY0...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration