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Db2 for z/OS

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Db2 FCIC should provide option to avoid taking long time with IGD17291I message

Please refer to the existing RFE ID 126885, "FCIC JOB takes long time with msg IGD17291I", opened from z/OS (DFSMS DSS) side, also. The data amount will be extremely increasing in our customer. To minimize data unavailability, they are trying to ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow multiple ALTER PART nnn VALUES clauses in one ALTER TABLE stmt instead of SQLcode -637 error

Requirement to alter many partition limit key values for a PBR tablespace. New values come from external source so REORG REBALANCE is not suitable. With index-based partitioning it is possible to alter multiple partition limit keys in a single AL...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

V12-CERT-2017 Refresh VIEW / CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW / VIEW VERSIONING.

While tables can be altered online; views need to be dropped and recreated, resulting in business impact or planned downtimes (our environment is making extensive use of the ANSI SPARC three level architecture, with many views and views on views)....
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 SQLCA feedback field indicating if this UOW is blocking others

On DB2 12 CERT (V12-CERT-2017) we discussed the possibility of increasing concurrency in DB2. In a typical batch environment we try to balance #of commits towards concurrency using a so-called commit-control-system that will have COMMIT on a numbe...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PieceMeal Delete without coding application

During CERT (V12-CERT-2017) it was a desire amongst several customers to get a sort of imbedded COMMIT in the new piecemeal DELETE - when running from TSO attachment.-Alternatively to allow procedural language (SQL PL like) syntax in SPUFI/DSNTEP2...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Please do not make stabilizing dynamic query again after a REBIND with APPLCOMPAT a normal behaviour

Hello, We're DB2z 12 FL508. This is a SAP/R3 application on 2-way data sharing. We stablized access path of some dynamic SQLs and they worked very well. Note that the packages were at APPLCOMPAT V12R1M500 when we did this. Lately, the packages wer...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

keeping track of CFIGIN input in DSNTIJRT job.

You are keeping track of CFIGIN input manually now. One DB2 supplied stored procedure has been added during maintenance How can you migrate to a new version of DB2 and make sure you are current? clist developer already refrenced our request and he...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

DCLGEN ignores hidden columns

We have defined columns with "IMPLICITLY HIDDEN" and want to generate the host variable declarations with the DCLGEN command which is described with"The declarations generator (DCLGEN) produces an SQL DECLARE TABLE statement and a COBOL, PL/I, or ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Message when IFI interface and monitor traces are disabled due to errors

When the IFI abend count reaches some hardcoded number which is not externalized this results in the disabling of all IFI request and MONITOR trace processing. Then when an application tries to use IFI it receives 00E60831 but the msg only goes to...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

flood of console with I/O error messages when Db2 is always tring to allocate/open LOGCOPY1 first for each LOG-READ request

Customer would like to avoid a flood of console with I/O error messages. The test environment and scenario is as follows.environment: - DB2 V11 DATA sharing (We have three MEMBER DB1A, DB2A, DB3A) - Q-Capture(IIDR for DB2 V10.2.1) server is runnin...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration