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Db2 for z/OS

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DSNUTILS/U -Writing SYSPR...

DSNUTILS/U does not allow the contents of SYSIBM.SYSPRINT to be externalized. The information is returned only to the caller. A DBA supporting a bulk load initiated from data stage does not have any visibility into the progress of the load or diag...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Error handling in SOAPHTT...

The SOAPHTTPNC and SOAPHTTPNV routines give the invoker a choice, via an LE environment variable setting, of either handling SOAP faults himself (RETURN_ERROR=YES) or have the SOAPHTTPN routine handle the fault (RETURN_ERROR=NO, the default).Both ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ALTER INDEX ADD INCLUDE COLUMN for pk index that also is fk.

Banco do Brasil has a continuos DB2 z/OS performance team that works to improve access path for legacy and new applications and in many cases the DDL "ADD INCLUDE COLUMN " has been used with successful for it but they are facing some cases that is...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

new IFCID for archive table

Auswertung der Accounting Daten bietet keine Informationen, ob Archiving stattgefunden hat. Der Grund dafür ist, dass die Accounting Trace Daten (IFCID 3) diese Informationen nicht enthalten.Informationen über Tabelle Archivierung werden nur ges...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Don't require WITH GRANT access on tables when transferring ownership on a view

Don't require WITH GRANT access on tables when transferring ownership on a view
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow DB2 system agents be offloaded to zIIP regardless of iiphonorpriority settings

In DB2 11, if the subsystem come up and detects that IIPHONORPRIORITY=NO, then the system agents will no longer be dispatched to zIIP. We would like that system agents will be offloaded to zIIP regardless of iiphonorpriority settings.
about 6 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

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