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Db2 for z/OS

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Add retry logic to DSNTPSMP

Allow retry logic in DSNTPSMP. User's may receive Abend S213 RC 30 on the DBRM, loadlib, or sourcelib when the function is rebuilding a non-native SQL Procedure. See the PMR for references to additional informational APARs. Within DSNTPSMP, there ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support Common Table Expression (CTE) in NTE

Today, the using of Common Table Expression (CTE) is limited only to the beginning of the select statement. There are many products, specially open source, but not only, that take every select statement and cover it by SELECT * from (nte). When ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

V12-CERT-2017 - Stop predicates in Range-list index scan (Accesstype NR).

Range-list index scan is a very efficient access for SQL Pagination. Whatever we use DB2 11 Syntax: Where ((Col1 = ? AND Col2 >?) OR Col1 > ? ORDER BY Col1, Col2 Or DB2 12 Syntax: Where (Col1, Col2) > ( ?, ?)ORDER BY Col1, Col2 In both ca...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Change in DSNTIAD code in order to get an abend in case of embedded comments

Our application developers use DSNTIAD to UPDATE tables also in the production environment. If they run a query with DSNTIAD and a comment embedded we'd like the job to abend.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 system checkpoint size detection

Request a way to display DB2 system checkpoint size and set an alert when it reaches a certain size.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve performance of except statement

Hi, For the first time I had a use for the except statement. It is quite simple: SELECT DISTINCT LOG_PGM FROM BDSTB030_BDSLOG EXCEPT SELECT LOG_PGM FROM BDSTB031_BDSLOG_SLET I want all LOG_PGM from the first table, that is not in the secon...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Bar particular DB2 group members from castout ownership

Currently the first member of a DB2 share group that lodges group update intent becomes the castout owner for that buffer pool. In the real world some LPARs can be significantly capped damaging write/update performance for the whole share group. W...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Automation Utility to convert from IBM RACF DB2 External Security to IBM DB2 Internal Security.

We are requesting a DB2 Automation Utility to convert from IBM RACF DB2 External Security to IBM DB2 Internal Security. This utility must be able to do the reverse of the RACF/DB2 Conversion Utility that was used to convert data in DB2 Internal Se...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IFCID 401 records should not be lost at DB2 STOP

DB2 10 gives the abilty to track statement level monitoring in the new IFCID 401 etc. These can be read by users using IFI but users not keep on this can let DB2 send the IFCID to SMF or GTF when package is ejected from the EDM-pool. However when ...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide DISPLAY command option to generate XML

The various DISPLAY commands in DB2 return a lot of useful data. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to store the output in a DB2 table. If every DISPLAY command came with an option that returned the output in loadable XML format, we could store t...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration