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Temporal INSERT syntax for application period temporal tables

We are using application period temporal tables with success. Application period temporal tables and syntax makes it easy to distinguish between the data values and the time dimension of the data.When doing SELECT, UPDATE and DELETE there is a spe...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

EXPLAIN Authority - Include Explain of Dynamic Stmt Cache

Include Explain of Dynamic Statement Cache with the EXPLAIN authority or create a new authority that has EXPLAIN plus EXPLAIN STMTCACHE but not all the authority of SQLADM (ie update of DB2 Catalog Tables)
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Remove some of the restrictions related to SQLCODE -20555

There is currently a restriction on the use of archive-enabled tables and temporal tables in one statement: The execution of this statement leads to SQLCODE -20555: SELECT * FROM DB2.LZTB0586 WHERE VNR IN ( SELECT VNR FROM DB2.LZTB0520) SQLERROR O...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

make SQL cost estimation more accurate

DB2 for z/OS provided cost estimation before execution for each SQL.We can use explain to check that. And DB2 governor (DB2 Resource Limit Facitliy) use the cost estimation for predictive governor. How ever the cpu cost estimation is not correct f...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

A need for a differentiation between PARTITIONED and DATA PARTITIONED indexes to avoid DPSI misuses

Hello IBM Db2 development team, could you please pay attention to the following observation and idea for an improvement from one of our customers (Deutsche Bank AG): Background: In a world where IBM have been continuing to make the mainframe an at...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ALTER DEFINE NO - REORG to delete all dataset(s)

: I know that there is a change in place now with the newest version to delete unused datasets for a PBG tablespace with a REORG, I was wondering if there might be something in the future where we could ALTER a Tablespace/Index to DEFINE NO and th...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add Accelerated/NOT Accelerated node to Access Plan Graph when IDAA plug in is NOT installed

When setting query acceleration = enable; externalize the data in DSN_QUERYINFO_TABLE by adding an Accelerated/NOT Accelerated node to Access Plan Graph when IDAA plug in is NOT installed - as is included when the plug in is installed
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Make product manuals available in ePub format.

Can you please make more product manuals (specifically DB2 for z/OS) available in the ePub format? The PDF format does not work well with tablets and readers. If you zoom to get a legible font size, then you must scroll left, right, left, right on...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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 ...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

If ADMIN_UTL_SCHED is used for imagecopies it should put the triggering jobname/CorrID into SYSIBM.SYSCOPY

If ADMIN_UTL_SCHED is used do to image copies it writes the name of the wlm-addressspace to the jobname columne of SYSIBM.SYSCOPY. We like to see the name of the triggering job/CorrID there, because we need this information. An alternative would b...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration