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Db2 for z/OS

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Need JSON UDFs (JSON_TABLE, etc.) to perform similar to XMLTABLE

Need to performance (elapsed time, cpu time) for JSON UDFs to match or exceed XMLTABLE function.We will be using HTTPGETCLOB to invoke RESTful APIs for Web Services on non-mainframe platforms.Our DB2/Legacy applications will need to invoke these, ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

PLANNAME and PROGNAME in error-message if PROGAUTH(ENABLE) error

Hi When a program fails e.g. with reasoncode 00F3003B, I want to see in the error message, which row DB2 tried to find in SYSIBM.DSNPROGUATH, i.e. I need program- nad planname.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Remote stored procedure calls

We need a RFE that is requesting to be able to call a stored procedure with a COMMIT coded in a two-phase commit client.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

ROTATE partitioned spaces with auxilary objects

Please consider strengthening the operations between base partition tablespaces and their XML/CLOB/BLOB counterpart auxillary tablespace such that an ALTER ADD partition on the base tablespace would result in a matching partition added on the auxi...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Implement a TRY_CAST specification or equivalent

Implement a TRY_CAST specification which is identical in syntax and semantics to a CAST specification, with the exception that it would return NULL and raise only an SQL warning, not an error, if the target data type is numeric, and the source typ...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

New pseudo-delete zparms

We've been told that pages trigger pseudo-delete cleanup when they become > 4% free entries. Please make this % a zparm. We would also like the calculation that triggers pseudo-delete cleanup to use another new zparm for the minimum # of entrie...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

options itemerror

I'd like to see any error handled by the itemerror parm of the options utility. Currently it only handles those errors that cause a RC8. If it is an unavailable resource or something else that causes an abend the step will abend rather than proces...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Use Limitkeys as histogram-stats, if appropriate

Recently we had a Performance Problem where I was requested to collect histogram-stats for a column, which matches the partitioning column. Because this was a big table, running this runstats took about 9 hours to complete. If limitkeys could serv...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Repair Catalog of Indexspaces

After using DSN1COPY to copy table- and indexspaces from one subsystem to another it is possible to do a REPAIR CATALOG to update catalog informations about RBA format, Row format and versions. There is no possiblity to repair index RBA format. We...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

same SQL functionality fo...

The customers of IBMs DB2 products (LUW and z/OS) expect that the existing differnences between the SQL functionalities are getting less from DB2 version to DB2 version. This - 85095,077,724 - is an example for a new functionality in DB2 LUW with ...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration