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Db2 for z/OS

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Provide N-Access for IN-lists containing non-column-expressions

Hi SAS-Queries of generate queries containing the following type of predicate:IN (YEAR(CURRENT DATE – 1 YEAR), YEAR(CURRENT DATE))Unfortunately this expression is not indexable
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

CREATE TABLE LIKE "table-controlled partitioning" should create the table with same partitioning scheme and rules

When a table that uses table-controlled partitioning is identified in the LIKE clause, the new table should automatic inherit the partitioning scheme of that table and create an uts PBR.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 lock escalation should be able to break-in into UOW running REL(DEALLOCATE)

At DB2 12 CERT (V12-CERT-2017) we discussed the following scenario : Changing CICS work to run REL(DEALLOCATE) from REL(COMMIT) was made possible in DB2 11 as BIND and DDL can now break-in. The change should give a CPU-reduction. However running b...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Autobind retries

We would like in the form of a zparm parameter or as a parameter within a package the ability to have failed autobinds of packages be retried a number of times based on this parameter. We have a routine process that does several alter rotates whic...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add more criteria for MONITOR CONNECTIONS in DB2 PROFILE tables

Currently the DB2 PROFILE table only allows LOCATION as the selection criteria with the MONITOR CONNECTIONS keyword. We would like to restrict the number of connections a particular application can open, but the connections can: 1) come via a shar...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Authorization Switching for ADMIN_COMMAND_DB2 and DSNUTILU

ADMIN_COMMAND_DB2 and execution of DSNUTILU need to have the capability to allow for authorization switching. Our developers and application production support teams need to be able to cancel threads relevant to the jobs they support vs having to ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Enhance Optimization Hints for Dynamic SQL

The current infrastructure for access path stability for dynamic SQLs does not have a mechanism to do patter matching on SQL statement. If access path stability is needed on a SQL where the predicates have actual literal values and the values chan...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ABND=513-04 in LMOD DSNUT101 for: REORG AUX YES of a PBG TS (with LOB columns) and when STACK YES is specified for TEMPLATE

Environment: DB2 V10, data sharing, z/OS 1.13 .Currently an 'ABEND513-04 in LMOD DSNUT101' can happen under the following two conditions for REORG tablespace with inline image copy generation:.1) REORG with parm AUX YES is set for a PBG TS with LO...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

JSON support using built in functions instead of UDF

JSON functions in DB2 are implemented as UDF functions and it is understood from IBM that there are performance implications for large volume processing using JSON UDF functions. We would like to request IBM to support JSON functions as Db2 built ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reduce latch content when we use nested SPs/UDFs

We faced a big problem with latch contention in our environment due to nested SPs and UDF in 3 levels, so it did not make sense for us, because of that we opened the IBM case to treat this issue.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration