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Search results: Db2 for z/OS

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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...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

temporary catalog table

Creating a temporary catalog table could be useful in various situations to restore certain numbers of rows to their original state. Using the example of SYSSEQUENCES, it could be possible to perform a row-based recovery in the event of an error w...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Support for imbedded SQL comments in DBRMs and SYSIBM.SYSPACKSTMT

Full support of imbedded SQL comments in DB2 DBRMs and SYSIBM.SYSPACKSTMT
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add DSNTIAUL comments support in SYSIN

We normally use DSNTIAUL with several SELECT statment coming from other applications. We would like to use them in the SYSIN statement but because some of this queries has the comment row that begins with '--' characters, it does not work. To allo...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add option to DCLGEN utility to support conditional compilation based on whether the SQL option is used

Some non-Db2 programs use the member created by the DCLGEN utility as a copy member because they are processing a file with the same layout as the COBOL portion of the DCLGEN member. The DCLGEN generated member contains a DECLARE TABLE statement, ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSC comment support

Currently the DSC only supports /* */ style starting comments. The "normal" -- style causes the SQL to never be cached! This is naturally very bad as loads of JAVA coders start their SQL with a -- comment to internally document the SQL code. This ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Change in DSNTIAD code in order to get an abend in case of embedded comments

Our application developers use DSNTIAD to UPDATE tables also in the production environment. If they run a query with DSNTIAD and a comment embedded we'd like the job to abend.
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Execution of static Programs which contains ALTER SEQUENCE statements in which the sequence name is not fully qualified.

Customer is receiving SQLCODE -204 during execution of static Programs which contains ALTER SEQUENCE statements (in which the Sequence name is not fully qualified). . That SQLCODE -204 is caused due to on runtime DB2 uses the value specified as OW...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered