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Db2 for z/OS

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SQL Tuning Services and full support of Security mechanism 18

We are about to finish the installation of SQL Tuning Services in our sandbox environment. What we learnt last week from Xuqin Zhao at the IBM lab is that the product currently not fully support Security mechanism 18, especially for db2_authid_R -...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow RECOVER INDEX BACKOUT YES for index with COPY NO

The RECOVER TABLESPACE with BACKOUT YES is a relatively new recover option. It tells Db2 RECOVER to start with the current state of the tablespace and read the data change log backwards to find all recent changes to the tablespace and undo those c...
10 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Enhance DSN1COMP to provide more information on LOB's

There is a need to have a greater handle on LOB columns with regard to their size and storage. At the moment the only way to analyse the lengths of the LOBs is through using expensive SQL with BIF LENGTH and SUBSTR. It really only possible to do s...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Show DSNT709I also in Joblog of MSTR

If there are several instances of RLF tables, and someone activates a specific instance using the DSN command with the command -START RLIMIT ID=nn, this is currently impossible to trace, or at least very difficult to trace. The START command is on...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Make IFI process zIIP eligible

With more and more data being replicated off host, the replication tasks are increasingly using more and more CPU to read the logs. Allowing the IFI read process to be zIIP eligible would help reduce our general purpose CPU consumption. This would...
30 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

In a UTS world shouldn't DSNUCH01 include DSNUM as 3rd column for this SYSCOPY's index?

In a UTS world shouldn't DSNUCH01 include DSNUM as 3rd column for the SYSCOPY's index?, since DB2 v12 all tablespaces should be defined as Universal Table Space, PBR or PBG. Segmented and Simple tablespaces are deprecated.
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add auditing to Db2 profile tables

We need a way to determine who/what/when changed something on the profile tables. DSN_PROFILE_TABLE DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES Current tables have timestamp but it's static. Would be nice to have row change timestamp added so we have both insert and u...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Support JSON_GET_POS_ARR_INDEX and JSON_UPDATE functions in Db2 z/OS

For updating and searching in JSON objects which are stored in Db2 tables we need the JSON functions JSON_GET_POS_ARR_INDEX and JSON_UPDATE. They exist as a dummy in Db2 z/OS but are currently not supported, not documented and do not work. In Db2 ...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration
118 VOTE

Resolve a restriction that CACHE DYN STABILITY function can not use with CONCENTRATE WITH LITERALS option.

Customer environment Db2 V12　<- DRDA -> Db2connect/JDBC(IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ type 2) Server side.(JDBC Type2 is used) Windows server: - WebSphere BASE 9.0.0　（Windows2016） - Db2client / IBM Data Server Runtime Client V11.1...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Improve ALTER TABLE ROTATE PARTITION

Currently ALTER TABLE ROTATE PARTITION only allows the ENDING value to be a constant, minvalue, or maxvalue. I would suggest adding the ability to generate DATES or TIMESTAMPS so that additional programming is not necessary to generate the ALTER s...
23 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

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