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Db2 for z/OS

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Allow enhanced management of Native Stored Procedures

Allow enhanced management of Native Stored Procedures to allow 1) versioning when IN/OUT/INOUT parameters change and/or Options change and 2) when Native Stored Procedures are nested, that is, one Native Stored Procedure calls another Native Store...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Unexpected DDF/RRSAF rollup records getting sent to accounting trace started with ASID trace qualification

This RFE is in response to IBM Service Request 64334 082 000. APAR PK12365 caused all DDF/RRSAF rollup accounting records to be sent to any active trace requesting IFCID 3 records regardless of trace qualification. This causes unwanted overhead an...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

clone table : add the same new column automaticly to the inactive table

When you add a new column to the active table, add the same column automaticly to the inactive table. (Similar to what happens when you add a new column in temporal tables)
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Replace unique NPI by PI

We need to replace non-partitioned unique indexes by partitioned indexes. This will be even more important when we start converting PBGs to PBRs in vNext. Already today you can create a new unique index. The problem is getting rid of the old NPI. ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhance IBM delivered functions SOAPHTTPNC and SOAPHTTPNV so third parameter goes beyond 1M.

Currently, the third parameter for IBM delivered functions SOAPHTTPNC and SOAPHTTPNV is limited to 1M. This is rather restrictive. We would like to use this function with an input of at least 2M (at least for now). I opened a PMR and they describe...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve storage limitation for -DIS PROCEDURE(*.*) SCOPE(GROUP) command

When we execute DISPLAY PROCEDURE (*.*) SCOPE GROUP in a datasharing system with large number and intensive use of stored procedures we get either of the following messages: DSNX978I -DBAI DISPLAY TERMINATED DUE TO INSUFFICIENT MESSAGE SPACE DSNX9...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 for z/OS V11 Unneccessary Index Open & Lock

For index scans, DB2 is unnecessarily opening and locking an index partition.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create Trigger - allow following to be changed ARCHIVESENSITIVE, BUSTIMESENSITIVE, SYSTIMESENSITIVE

Allow this to be changed when creating basic trigger. ARCHIVESENSITIVE BUSTIMESENSITIVE SYSTIMESENSITIVE
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide possibility to alter a COLUMN from NOT NULL to NULL and vice versa

A table was defined with COLUMN A NOT NULL but it is not posssible to remove the NOT NULL clause afterwards!
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow TAPEUNITS to use virtual tape drives

The COPY utility utilizing templates allows for TAPEUNITS(0) to let COPY decide the appropriate number of physical tape drives to use. If all tape drives are virtual, copy will only use one tape drive. This requires hard coding TAPEUNITS(n) to get...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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