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Db2 for z/OS

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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

Add retry logic to DSNTPSMP

Allow retry logic in DSNTPSMP. User's may receive Abend S213 RC 30 on the DBRM, loadlib, or sourcelib when the function is rebuilding a non-native SQL Procedure. See the PMR for references to additional informational APARs. Within DSNTPSMP, there ...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

LOAD card with RESUME and REPLACE on same table

Today there's no error message/info message that if you run a load with REPLACE and RESUME on the same table in the same job then you'll run into problem with missing Index-entries for the table
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Is a defect

V12-CERT-2017 - Stop predicates in Range-list index scan (Accesstype NR).

Range-list index scan is a very efficient access for SQL Pagination. Whatever we use DB2 11 Syntax: Where ((Col1 = ? AND Col2 >?) OR Col1 > ? ORDER BY Col1, Col2 Or DB2 12 Syntax: Where (Col1, Col2) > ( ?, ?)ORDER BY Col1, Col2 In both ca...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

More Granularity on DISPLAY command authority (display procedure)

We'd appreciate if there was a more granular level of authority to permit schema owners of stored procedures to be able to display status of stored procedures. We are concerned from an audit standpoint that granting system-display privilege would ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IFCID 401 records should not be lost at DB2 STOP

DB2 10 gives the abilty to track statement level monitoring in the new IFCID 401 etc. These can be read by users using IFI but users not keep on this can let DB2 send the IFCID to SMF or GTF when package is ejected from the EDM-pool. However when ...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide DISPLAY command option to generate XML

The various DISPLAY commands in DB2 return a lot of useful data. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to store the output in a DB2 table. If every DISPLAY command came with an option that returned the output in loadable XML format, we could store t...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Change in DSNTIAD code in order to get an abend in case of embedded comments

Our application developers use DSNTIAD to UPDATE tables also in the production environment. If they run a query with DSNTIAD and a comment embedded we'd like the job to abend.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide a way to fix XML versioning after copying XML TS with DSN1COPY

If DSN1COPY or similar procedure is used to copy XML tablespace that was initially created with 6-byte RBA/LRSN format and later converted to 10-byte RBA/LRSN format to a tablespace that was initially created with 10-byte RBA/LRSN format, then sub...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration