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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.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 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...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enable automatic index reorganization in volatile tables for non-SAP databases

per case TS001700030: Db2 autonomic features make a great contribution towards customer loyalty, usability and DB administration. It is important to have all autonomic features extended to all type-customers and not just some (i.e. SAP databases).
almost 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Make a FastTrack a tool suitable for designing and documenting ETL mapping

The InfoSphere tool suite is missing a piece.It is a great tool to govern you data warehouse using IGC with the business glossary, data lineage viewer among the highlights and it is a great tool to create the ETL flows in. What about the inbetween...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

IDAA Loader disabling tables in IDAA upon failed load RFE 128179

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=128179 IDAA-IDAA Loader product is disabling a table when the load fails for any reason, causing serious performance issues as queries will start running in...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader 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...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Nothing prevents to ALTER a table in DB2 z/OS which is Archived in IDAA

As nothing prevents to ALTER a partitionned table on DB2 (ie add a column, change length of a column, ...) whose some partitions are archived on IDAA (with PRO status).Partitions on DB2 may be altered and not those on IDAA (active partition(s) : t...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Block locking for U/D on MDC when LOCKSIZE=BLOCKINSERT

Block locking is done for INSERTs on MDC tables when LOCKSIZE = BLOCKINSERT, which is a great benefit for memory usage, and allow to parallelize treatments for different dimensions. However, this is unsufficient, because treatments do also Update/...
about 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Control the number of concurrent queries inside IDAA by Correlation ID, Connect Type, Connect ID, Authid and/or table name

Allow control of the number of queries running concurrent in IDAA per transaction (Correlation id), connect type, Connect ID, Authid and/or per table. This would provide a better control of IDAA usage by applications so that the most important one...
about 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Track a local directory duing job execution and report utilization details in job rusage

We would like to be able to, at submission time, specify a local directory that we would like to have LSF monitor the total size and files in and report in the Jobs RUSAGE periodically. This directory will be separate from the execCwd or the cwd. ...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration