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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 2 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

    Enhance Auditpolicy OBJMA...

    Please enhance auditpolicy OBJMAINT to support auditing for object creates.
    about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future 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

    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

    DSNTIJXZ should create complete DSNTIDxx member

    DSNTIJXZ currently produces a DSNTIDxx member that has a lot of default values, like BSDS name, WLM environments, etc. To be really useful, all relevant values need to be extracted from the running system in order to avoid hunting down actual valu...
    about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

    Db2 for z/OS: Change SETCURRENTVERSION via Reorg

    Now, the Repair Utility with option SETCURRENTVERSION has to be used, to change all v0 tables to the highestVersion. Unfortunately this action is not concurrent. It would be better to have the the opportunity to do that with an online reorg.
    about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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