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Search results: Db2 for z/OS

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BIFs ENRYPT_DATAKEY and DECRYPT_DATAKEY* should be able to check with user ID of ACEE

The BIFs ENRYPT_DATAKEY and DECRYPT_DATAKEY* are very useful for encrypting and decrypting data (e.g., passwords) that are to be stored in DB2 tables. The programmer does not have to worry about the keys used, as they are stored in the ICSF. When ...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Migration of multi-table tablespaces to UTS PBG

Difficulties to migrate from old tablespace types to UTS.DB2 V10 gives us the opportunity to use the ALTER-syntax to change tablespace type from SIMPLE or SEGMENTED to UTS PBG without (almost) any outage. Unfortunately there is a limitation which ...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Eliminate x-locks on CREATE INDEX DEFER YES to improve concurrency

This is similar to DB24ZOS-I-1114 and DB24ZOS-I-1689. When attempting to create an index with CREATE INDEX DEFER YES, there should be no need to lock packages that are dependent on the table. Requiring an x-lock doesn't seem necessary. With phase-...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Instantiated temp tables with full functionality

The SAP data dictionary supports the creation of temp tables. This allows application developers to speed up the processing by temporarily storing result sets of queries in the database and later process them. The data is only kept until commit. T...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add REMARKS column to SYSIBM.SYSDATABASE and COMMENT support for database object

We would like to ask you, to add the REMARKS column in SYSIBM.SYSDATABASE and support for COMMENT statement for databases. There is no possibility currently to store some form of a description for databases in DB2 catalog. In big sites where thous...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Profile Table Enhancement for local applications

Profile Tables today support only remote connections and no support for local/batch applications. When PT is used to set certain registers, it only works for remote applications and local apps needs to be changed to add certain SET commands.
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

proactive messages of objects ??% full or 'follow-up objects free space' function inside Db2

Follow up TS and XS limits in Db2 z/OS is not an easy job. The last 6 months, we coped issues with partitioned indexes full. This were partitioned bases 'temporarily session' tables for applications, whereby the not active partition is cleaned up ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Package Invalidation avoidance

At the moment nearly all online definition changes to an object leads per default to package invalidation.So online schema evolution is very useful, but with regarding to the availability (7*24) the package invalidation isn't a great implementatio...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0

Improve ALTER TABLE ROTATE PARTITION

Currently ALTER TABLE ROTATE PARTITION only allows the ENDING value to be a constant, minvalue, or maxvalue. I would suggest adding the ability to generate DATES or TIMESTAMPS so that additional programming is not necessary to generate the ALTER s...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Request for RUNSTATS SHRLEVEL REFERENCE with SAMPLE to update RTS TOTALROWS

Recovery to PIT or to current, and non-standard recovery methods such as DSN1COPY or DF/SMS dataset DUMP/RESTORE from flashcopy backups can leave TOTALROWS set to 0, NULL or invalid values. Trying to run something like a REBUILD index relies on TO...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration