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Editing a job: showing job name on all "Edit job" screens

It would be nice to show the job name on every "Edit job" screen. Currently, the job name is shown on the 1st and 3rd screens (Define and Finish) but not on the 2nd screen (Select databases).
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

DB2 User Defined Function(UDF) on zSeries to convert relational data from existing DB2 tables to JSON

I am looking for something similar in Mainframe described to the following URL which is available in DB2 for iSeries and not currently available on zOS DB2. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/sqlp/rbafyjsonpublishing.htm I th...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Error SQL0478N should include schema name

When issuing a sentence like: db2 drop audit policy SELECT_ALL_TABLES The returned error message does not include the schema of the problematic object: SQL0478N The statement failed because one or more dependencies exist on thetarget object. Tar...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

LOAD utility, which run towards to a partition table, should allow other query processing insert/update to other partitions.

The requests for the enhancement of DB2 LOAD utilities so as to run LOAD utility in a specific partition table during the other query processing like select/update/insert/delete on the other partitions in one partition table.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Documentation for declare cursor database

The documentation of the DECLARE CURSOR does not include the DECLARE CURSOR DATABASE. However, this is included in other parts of the KnowledgeCenter.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Offline Documentation

I work on a private (for a reason) LAN, without internet access. Myself and other developers and DBAs used to be fine with using a slightly outdated version of the IBM DB2 Information Center, which we downloaded and put on servers inside the firew...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Save and (restore) access plan for dynamic and Statis SQL

Sometime after maintenance, or index/stats change, certain SQL can pick a bad access path. It would be nice to be able to save access path and force db2 to pick old access path. We just had very painful process after V11 migration. When access pat...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

RCAC rule needs to be dropped and recreaed after adding new column to a table, even if that column is not part of the rule.

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPGG_11.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.sql.ref.doc/doc/r0000888.html If a column is added to a table on which a mask or a permission is defined, or to a table that is referenced in the definition of a mask or ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add similar feature to DB2 - Oracle Database, Edition Based Redefinition (EBR) feature

Oracle Database has Edition Based Redefinition (EBR) feature to minimize/eliminate downtime through schema versioning. It would be very useful for DB2 to have a similar feature to allow adding or modifying new or existing data structures without d...
about 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DB2 z .

Hello, At the present time CP4D does not support certificate based authentication to DB2z for replication on DB2 open databases. We are forced to use a generic user with password which is not secure and not recommanded. Could you please develop th...
about 3 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration