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Db2 for z/OS

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Add flag field to IFCID 402 to indicate when a reset has occurred.

In Db2 Version 13 and V12 (with APAR PH50729), Db2 resets IFCID 402 statistic counters immediately if the warning or exception threshold for the associated profiles is changed when you issue a START PROFILE command. It’s difficult to tell if the c...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

For Modify Utility, enhance to allow selecting SYSCOPY rows by TYPE (full, incremental) and DSN pattern (DBP.DB2.ICWKY*), Modify should also delete rows where there are no media.

Need to delete rows for Incremental ICs which are kept 14 days while the Fulls are 30 days. Can't do that using the current product.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reorg - SORTDATA NO - write to shadow instead of SYSREC and then the shadow

Reorg - SORTDATA NO - write to shadow instead of SYSREC and then the shadow
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add/improve support for JSON Publishing and Parsing functions

Currently the JSON functions on DB2 z/OS are lagging behind other platforms (LUW, iSeries) by atleast 3-4 years. There is no support for building JSON document using functions like JSON_ARRAY, JSON_OBJECT, JSON_ARRAYAGG, JSON_OBJECTAGG which are a...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Not under consideration

IFI READS support for IFCID 105

IFCID 105 contains information needed to map DBID/OBID values to object names. This information is produced on the STATS interval and contains mapping for EVERY object currently open to DB2. On large systems, thousands of IFCID 105 records may be ...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

AREO Status via select

Some ddl Changes are in table SYSPENDINGDDL Some ddl Changes are not there: for example alter table add column can only be see via -dis db() sp() adv It would be better to have the same bahavior for all ddl changes with AREO* Status.Maybe it could...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add the SECTNO value to any IFCIDS currently containing STMTNO information, ideally the IFCIDS 53/58/59/60/61/64/65/66

Add the SECTNO (SYSPACKSTMT) value to any IFCIDS currently containing STMTNO information, ideally the IFCIDS 53/58/59/60/61/64/65/66, minimally the 53/58. Without this information it is difficult for Strobe to match up the SQL statement that is be...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Stop of utilities during migration except for SYSADM

During Migration it would be nice to turn off all utilities through a DB2 issued online command except for utilities submitted by SYSADM. This would guarantee that utilities would not be able to run during the migration on any datasharing member b...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

the SYSPACKAGE's column "lastused" needs to update more frequently

Hi IBM, As you see below in description of "lastused" column on SYSIBM.SYSPACKAGE, the updated must be done "whenever" the package is used but it's not true, so due to this doubt that we have when we saw that this column was not updated after pack...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

sqlcode -803 INSERT precheck

Looking at DB2 log when a SQLCODE -803 duplicate key condition occurs in an INSERT often leads to a rollback of the change already made to the tablespace and/or in the non unique indexes defined against the affected table. Would it be possible to ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration