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Db2 for z/OS

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FR581: Enable pushdown and transitive closure for LIKE with parameter markers to table expressions

As part of SAP Core Data Services (CDS), SAP supports 'type as you search' capability when entering values in panels. As part of this processing, they issue the following query on a view which includes a UNION clause. The access path with DB2 is n...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 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...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSNHDECP usage

The DSNHDECP modules is currently used in our shop and needs to be created for every DB2 subsystem, or data sharing group. This means that we need to create individual SDSNEXIT libraries for each subsystem. We used to have one SDSNEXIT which held ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 V11/V12 Modify Recovery Change

Change Modify Recovery to display the dataset name from ICTYPE='i' (lower case i - BMC cumulative incremental image copies) entries when the row is deleted from SYSIBM.SYSCOPY.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for masking in IDAA

Currently, IDAA does not support DB2 masks. This results in potentially inconsistent information being returned to user (depending on whether the query is routed to IDAA).
over 6 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
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Is a defect

Improve DB2 messages(etc DSNB601I)

A message indicating a situation in which SQL can not be executed is an information message.If this is an error message, the system administrator can easily find the error.For example, a DSNB601I message indicating that the buffer pool is full.
over 6 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 ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Audit policy with userid after a DB2 recycle.

Audit trace starting as per audit policy after a DB2 recycle does not contain USERIDs as per original trace. This is causing change captured SMF records due to a DB2 restart. Is it possible to update the audit policy system to capture trace qualif...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Table Values functionality

Is it possible to add following functionality to DB2 zos 10, 11 and IDAA 4.1 and above. Apparently it is supported in DB2 LUW. SELECT S.Year, Q.Quarter, Q.ResultsFROM SalesAgg AS S, TABLE (VALUES(1, S.q1), (2, S.q2), (3, S.q3), (4, S.q4)) AS Q(Qua...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration