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ADB2GEN: generate DDL for hidden ROWID columns

We have several tables that contain LOB columns and thus also a generated rowid column. If an extra column is added, it will be placed at the end. If we now generate DDL for a table with a LOB column via ADB2GEN, then the generated rowid column is...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

DECFLOAT support for COBOL and PLI with DCLGEN

When we run DCLGEN on an object with a DECFLOAT column, we get the following error: DSNE958I DCLGEN DOES NOT SUPPORT THE SQL DATA TYPE DECFLOAT (SQLTYPE 996) FOR THE PLI LANGUAGE DSNE905I EXECUTION COMPLETE, MEMBER ... ADDED The created DECLARE an...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

IDAA AOT support for High Availability

Customer would like to use IDAA Accelerator Only Tables on a High Availability scenario.They currently have 4 IDAAs in production and the lack of HA support limits their AOT utilization
over 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

TRIGGERS referencing system temporal tables

Hello, Since we are in DB2 V10 we use triggers with bi-temporal tables (system temporal + business temporal table) to implement complex relational integrity rules that can not be defined using standard primary/foreign keys. It's related to simple ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

[GOV] ICP4D v.4.8.5 PROD Env (MDI) - Need option to skip asset/column description while publishing the project assets to catalog.

MDI Scan: Column description overwrites description in Catalog. Issue replication: Table and column description created through hydration job is being replaced after MDI Scan and publish in WKC "GCP for marketplace catalog". Expectation: Stop over...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

IDR for Db2 zOs Remote Source Behavior when Changing the Dictionary in Compressed Tablespaces

When SHAREDSCRAPE LOGREADER or LOGPARSER detects a "IFI call to read log data returned a decompression error at log position.. on table .... with return code 00000008, reason code 00C90063 " stop the subscripcion. Then, we have to mark at current ...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Indication of the reason for conversion by drop/create

In our environment, we try to execute all changes to DB2 tables online via Alter commands if possible. However, there are a lot of reasons why in some cases the Alter is not possible and as a consequence Admintool correctly chooses the conversion ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 6 Delivered

Allow for UNLOAD SHRLEVEL CHANGE and REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE to be compatible wen executing on the same partition

We are running very busy environmenet with IDAA being frequently refreshed by loader with increamnts of inserted records. In addition, we are using the DB2 automated housekeeping approach with the DSNACCOX stored proc implmentation to manage and t...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Delivered

Remove per-tablespace size limitation for v11.1 and v11.5 community edition

Currently if we restore a database backup that was taken on a higher edition of Db2 into Developer-C, it fails with SQL1139N, even if it is fully less than 100GB. There are two workarounds for this: Set a MAX for all table spaces before taking th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 4 Delivered

255 rows/page limit should be addressed

Informix has a rows/page limit of 255 rows/page. Perhaps this was not a problem originally but over time we have seen new features: larger page sizes (up to 16 kB against 2 kB or 4 kB previously, dependent on operating system). compression option....
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Delivered