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Db2 for z/OS

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Improve messaging surrounding the +20272 SQL warning in cases of a -904

A DBA was running an ALTER NOT CLUSTER. The ALTER should have converted the tablespace to table-controlled partitioning, but it encountered a -904. I have copied the output to "additional details". In the SPUFI output, after the -904, the ALTER di...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Implement a method for monitoring and automatically cancel connections and free locks if the time is exceded

We have CICS Transactions that access to DB2 and get some locks on the resources they need. Then they call webservices outside the mainframe. When the R/T of these webservices are high, it causes contentions with other transactions and requests on...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide AMODE64 interface for the CAF on z/OS - i.e. DSNALI for CONNECT, OPEN PLAN and DISCONNECT.

We have application code that we would like to have use the Db2 CAF facility in AMODE64 as well as use the z/OS MQSeries AMODE64 support but we cannot.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Future consideration

Replace unique NPI by PI

We need to replace non-partitioned unique indexes by partitioned indexes. This will be even more important when we start converting PBGs to PBRs in vNext. Already today you can create a new unique index. The problem is getting rid of the old NPI. ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Create Trigger - allow following to be changed ARCHIVESENSITIVE, BUSTIMESENSITIVE, SYSTIMESENSITIVE

Allow this to be changed when creating basic trigger. ARCHIVESENSITIVE BUSTIMESENSITIVE SYSTIMESENSITIVE
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide possibility to alter a COLUMN from NOT NULL to NULL and vice versa

A table was defined with COLUMN A NOT NULL but it is not posssible to remove the NOT NULL clause afterwards!
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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

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
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Is a defect

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 ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide a way to fix XML versioning after copying XML TS with DSN1COPY

If DSN1COPY or similar procedure is used to copy XML tablespace that was initially created with 6-byte RBA/LRSN format and later converted to 10-byte RBA/LRSN format to a tablespace that was initially created with 10-byte RBA/LRSN format, then sub...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration