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Zparm to specify maximum amount of bufferpool storage

Please provide a Zparm to specify the maximum amount of bufferpool storage DB2 may aquire for all of the bufferpools.
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

DB2 must not abend RC00F3040A when allied address spaces goes on end-of-memory in must complete operations or holding latch

In case of an allied address space going on end-of-memory with its agents are in must complete operation or still holding any latch, DB2 subsystem must be able to handle this situation keeping the data integrity not abending 04F RC00F3040A.
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Permit wildcard on OBJECTSCHEMA of SYSAUDITPOLICIES

We need to activate native DB2 audit policy using SYSAUDITPOLICIES catalog table. In this table we can use wildcard (i.e. '%') for OBJECTNAME column, but no for OBJECTSCHEMA We have different schemas in our subsystem so we need to define more poli...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

the message DSNZ015I should be a warning and not an informational message

running a batch -SET SYSPARM command should end in a CC 0004 if there are parms that are NOT pulled in.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

XML, XMLMODIFY, Rename a tag without loosing data

The possibility to rename a XML-Tag without loosing data in one single step with XMLMODIFY or with xmlquery as in LUW:Example 1:UPDATE EOBK.SMXML SET XMLDATEN = XMLMODIFY(' rename node /RECORD/FREMD_EROEFF_DAT' as "ABSCHLUSS_DATUM") WHERE SPARTE =...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow DB2 to Insert more than 32KB data into a CLOB column

SQL Server Management Studio, Toad for Oracle allow inserts with more than 32 KB column size but DB2 doesn't allow the same and this is a show stopper for few projects to come into DB2 ZoS as data fixes by application team is not possible in produ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Removing must-have field specification list in case of UNLOAD SPANNED YES restriction

We propose to remove the Db2 UNLOAD Utility restriction, that the UNLOAD statement must include a field specification list thatspecifies all LOB and XML data at the end of the record, if SPANNED YES is specified.
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DDLTOX multiplier for IRLMRWT (allow values between 0 and 1)

DB2 subsystem parameter DDLTOX allows us to specify how long a DDL request will wait for a resource before timing out.We have it set to the default value of 1, so the value of IRLMRWT applies, which we have set to 60 seconds. (Note that this is to...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide incremental progress messages through a DB2 group restart

During a recent DR activity our Db2 had issues during group recovery and it was challenging to determine at what point Db2 had gone as far as it could before requiring the other member to be restarted to resolve any locks RC00C200EB . The MSTR log...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add a command to remove a specific retained lock

Under current behavior in a DB2 Data Sharing environment, when a DB2 member crashes and is not able to restart, the application on the other members is stopped by retained locks.In our environment, for some specific applications due to the nature ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration