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Db2 for z/OS

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Create a new BiF to do a real TIMESTAMPDIFF

The current scalar function TIMESTAMPDIFF is great if the difference is not over one month, then it starts guessing at how many days are involved. If you want to know the number of seconds between two timestamps it gives variously bad degrees of e...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide SCOPE(GROUP) option for STOP/START PROFILE

Provide for a SCOPE(GROUP) option for START/STOP PROFILE commands similar to START/STOP PROCEDURE.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Convert LRSN to TIMESTAMP

We use CDC replication. When the replication stops for any reason there is a bookmark in the form of an LRSN. We need a way to convert that LRSN to a TIMESTAMP. We need this conversion to see if the LRSN is too old, so we do not have Arhive Logs t...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Under review

Create INDEX and SKPT lock. DDL and continuous availability.

Working in a banking 24x7 environment without any maintenance window our concurrency issues with DDL changes are increasing more and more everyday as our workload increases. There are some concurrency problems that we think it should value the eff...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Allow a join of a temporal table with an archive-enabled table.

Allowing us to join a temporal table with an archive-enabled table would allow us to take advantage of both features. As is we will have to choose one or the other.
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

alternate name for special register CURRENT APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY > APPLCOMPAT

is it possible to introduce alternate name or short version of "CURRENT APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY"? On a regular basis, we usually want to validate the applcompat of our system for informative purposes so we do: SELECT CURRENT APPLICATION COMPATIB...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add REMARKS column to SYSIBM.SYSDATABASE and COMMENT support for database object

We would like to ask you, to add the REMARKS column in SYSIBM.SYSDATABASE and support for COMMENT statement for databases. There is no possibility currently to store some form of a description for databases in DB2 catalog. In big sites where thous...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improvement of FlashCopy Load on a PBR

When loading with LOG NO a PBR at tablespace level, all partitions will be copied by FlashCopy and not only the ones that were updated. But when FLASHCOPY NO is specified, only the partitions that were update will get COPY PENDING flag. The FlashC...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Restful API call needs to support array data types

Currently the RESTFUL API Db2 service does not support array data types as part of the call statement.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Altering the default value of a global variable

Global Variables: A global variable can be created with a default value. Each session that uses it will then instantiate a version of that global variable, with the default value and any change in the value is limited in scope to its unit-of-work....
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration