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Db2 for z/OS

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Avoid Db2 failure even if it got BSDS access initialization failure (BSDS timestamp mismatch)

[Background]- Customer's GRSRNL specifies SYSVSAM in systems exclusion list because they need to share CATALOGs. [Description]Our customer got BSDS Access initialization failure and starting Db2 was failed. Please refer to PMR#55237,615,760.They c...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Allow separate grantable authoriy for REFRESH MQT

The current authorization to issue a REFRESH TABLE on an MQT is the following (this is true up through and including v12): https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPEK_12.0.0/sqlref/src/tpc/db2z_sql_refreshtable.html The privilege set for...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Regular Expressions (regex) scalar function

The XMLQUERY function allows the user to use the 'fn:matches' XQuery function, which is great. Please see example UDF which does this... ~~~~~~~~~~--#SET TERMINATOR ! CREATE FUNCTION "UDF_STRING_REGEX_MATCH" ( SEARCHSTRING VARCHAR (50) ) RETURNS S...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

402 VLDB - DB2 Zparm with Variable Options

DB2 Zparm with Variable Options We have a large number of DB2's to maintain.Most of the DB2's run with the same Zparm values except for the following:-Catalog HLQ, IRLM name, ARC HLQ, Member ID, Data sharing detail and DDF detail. If these values ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Long Time to restart DB2 caused by Rollback in SYSIBM.SYSSEQUENCE

As in PMR 94522,250,631:"Yes, it'd good to ask customer to submit a RFE so that this issue can be evaluated by the DB2 development architects. The current DB2 behavior was designed and implemented before SYSIBM.SYSSEQUENCE exists. Thank you very m...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Native UTF-8 Support in Db2 DSNxLI Interfaces

We have some issues with customer's name, as we don't have this special characters in our codepage. So we try to use UTF-8 on the mainframe (as the data is coming raw in as UTF-8). PL/I and COBOL newly supports native UTF-8: COBOL: PIC U, PL/I: UC...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Refresh MQT access

We have a situation where the application team wants the access to refresh their MQTs, but all the available options give them over entitlements other than just refresh. • Ownership of the materialized query table - gives application team access t...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

modify dsntep2 to produce result set despite exceessive warnings

DB2 and IDAA do not produce the same results for the example in question. That has been explained and will be documented but we would like to see DSNTEP2 at least run and produce output instead of only returning SQL error codes (-171 in our exampl...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Column name isn't allowed after LIKE

SQL that does select * from xxx where 'value' like col1fails.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 object lock - return code on the ESS Normal Call Exit interface

In the case where an object lock is not available for an External SubSystem ( ESS ) origin thread, DB2 should not return the 'temporary error" return code on the ESS Normal Call Exit interface.It would be acceptable to make this optional. Justific...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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