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Db2 for z/OS

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Allow certain Table ALTERs when Table has defined View(s)

Allow certain Table ALTERs to be performed if the Table has a defined VIEW. The attached file contains the Table DDL and ALTER statement for this RFE's Use Case.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Trusted Contexts do not allow ADDRESS wildcarding

To request that DB2 Trusted Context allow wildcarding of TCPID addresses in the ADDRESS attribute.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Only one Trusted Context is allowed per SYSTEM AUTHID

To request DB2 Trusted Contexts to accept RACF Group name for SYSTEM AUTHID.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

CONCURRENTACCESSRESOLUTION (USECURRENTLYCOMMITTED) - missing UPDATE support

For a new application we decided to use BIND option "CONCURRENTACCESSRESOLUTION(USECURRENTLYCOMMITTED)". In this case we didn't expected to run into a timeout for a SELECT statement, but received the following error: DSNT408I SQLCODE = -911, ERROR...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

RECOVER utility option to include inflights

There should be an option in RECOVER utility which allows to include during recovery all the inflight threads which started before the point of time to which we are recovering the object. Currently all inflights are being rolled back
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide capability to pass a job name as a parameter to ADMIN_UTL_SCHEDULE stored procedure

Provide the capability to pass an additional input parameter to the ADMIN_UTL_SCHEDULE stored procedure. The parameter should accept up to 8 alphanumeric characters. The value of the parameter will then be used as the job name that gets generated ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SQLCODE doesn't provide useful information when performing a SELECT on a DB2 table with Row Access Control implemented

We are planning to use ' Row access control' in DB2 as a solution to share some tables, but giving end-users/processes access only to the data they are allowed to see. We have found it really easy to implement (with the built-in function VERIFY_GR...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Query rewrite eliminating "always true" and "always false" predicates

We would like DB2 to be able to rewrite dynamic SQL statements that contain parameter markers by eliminating "always true" and "always false" predicates once it knows the values of the parameter markers. It often happens that such predicates are n...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DSNACCOX RRTDataSpaceRatio & TSQTY ZPARM

Our DBAs would like to use the RRTDataSpaceRatio attribute via DSNACCOX stored procedure to facilitate triggering REORGs for over allocated tablespaces. This is not currently possible due to the fact that REORGs are triggered erroneously for small...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

A new DB2 option to allow Customers to determine when waiters or blockers should be killed

A new DB2 option is needed to allow Customers to determine when waiters or blockers should be killed.Granularity is required based on profile tables specifying connection type,exclusion list, business value, effort to rollback.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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