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Db2 for z/OS

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A new command "REBIND QUERY" should be made available.

When packages become invalid due to maintenance activities, they may be rebound when needed. But, when a hint is established by running a "BIND QUERY" command, that bound query may become invalid by these same events. Restoration of that bound que...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add new parameter for REORG to designate different access behavior when REORG is in LOG/SWITCH phase

Let's say we have zparm IRLMRWT=15, and we have large tablespace REORG with SHRLEVEL(CHANGE) or (REFERENCE), the elapse time of LOG/SWITCH phase is greater than 15 seconds, this causes a lot of online workload timeout with -911. At that time the t...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Long Time to restart DB2 caused by Rollback in SYSIBM.SYSSEQUENCE

As in PMR 94522,250,631:"Yes, it'd good to ask customer to submit a RFE so that this issue can be evaluated by the DB2 development architects. The current DB2 behavior was designed and implemented before SYSIBM.SYSSEQUENCE exists. Thank you very m...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

DSNRLMTxx resource limit tables need column for WLM Reporting Group

The DSNRLMTxx resource limit tables aremissing column for WLM Reporting Group. This would allow for resource consumption to be managed at the WLM Reporting Group level (rather than at the userid level, for instance. As WLM is the best method of ma...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

modify dsntep2 to produce result set despite exceessive warnings

DB2 and IDAA do not produce the same results for the example in question. That has been explained and will be documented but we would like to see DSNTEP2 at least run and produce output instead of only returning SQL error codes (-171 in our exampl...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 object lock - return code on the ESS Normal Call Exit interface

In the case where an object lock is not available for an External SubSystem ( ESS ) origin thread, DB2 should not return the 'temporary error" return code on the ESS Normal Call Exit interface.It would be acceptable to make this optional. Justific...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow separate grantable authoriy for REFRESH MQT

The current authorization to issue a REFRESH TABLE on an MQT is the following (this is true up through and including v12): https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPEK_12.0.0/sqlref/src/tpc/db2z_sql_refreshtable.html The privilege set for...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Make IDAA SQL Extensions available to the Db2 SQL API

By attaching an IDAA to our Db2 for z/OS we are adding analytics capability to the mainframe. Our data scientists are starting to exploit the capability, but need more SQL functionality (scalar functions) to be able to do analytics on all types of...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

prohibit alter/create tablespace not logged

Performing create/alter tablespace to be not logged might be considered a security problem.A solution for this can be a new ZPARM or a special privilege (in RACF & Db2) that will prohibit anyone from doing so, even SYSADM/DBADM etc. Another "c...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Audit Policy enhancement for Global Temporary Tables

Audit policies are used frequently for us to track for a month the Group IDs read, write, etc of standard Tables of Type P,C,T. We would like be able to use this ability to Audit use of created Global Temporary Tables of Type G as well. This would...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration