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Db2 for z/OS

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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...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Performance improvement for sync i/o

A track that is not fully formatted is not eligible for sync i/o (zHyperLink). With the existing code, DB2 sends sync i/o request to all tracks, even ones that are not fully formatted. These i/o get rejected and retried as transport mode. I'd like...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add another counter to indicate that access was allowed due to install SYSADM authority rather than modifying the existing PKG-AUTH UNSUCC-CACHE counter behavior

If Installation SYSADM is used for EXECUTE authority on a package, the entry is not cached in the CACHEPAC area. However, the PKG-AUTH UNSUCC-CACHE count will be incremented even though the Installation SYSADM ID is not being cached in the CACHEPA...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Referential Integrity for Real-time Statistics Tables (RI for RTS)

OVERVIEW: The RTS tables do not have DB2-enforced RI. The DB2 component that handles the maintenance of this data can encounter certain failures that can result in obsolete/invalid/orphaned data in the table(s). By the way, this is more prevalent ...
about 4 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...
about 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...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Current authorization session variable

We would like to have a session variable that would identify the current authorization in use by a connection. By "current authorization", I would like it to identify the package owner of the package being executed for static sql or dynamic sql us...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

in DB2 v.11 env. question on use of httpgetblobfile

Problem description and business impact customer in z/os v2.2 and db2 v.11 have a question on function httpgetblobfile: the function (db2xml.httpgetblobfile but also db2xml.httpgetclobfile) has in input a varchar with the url and a clob with the h...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Backout also if system errors occours using 'load resume yes backout yes'

Load resume yes backout yes should perform the backout process also when some system error occurs (ie.: space constraints on utility datasets), primarily in case of DISCARDS 1 specification.With this choice the customer wish to prefer the preserva...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Dynamically Defined Reorg Mapping Tables That Use An Implicitly Defined Database

Currently, the implicitly created database works great because every instance of a mapping table is in a separate database.This avoids any possibility of database lock contention across multiple concurrent instances of reorg.The downside of the im...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration