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Search results: Db2 for z/OS

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ARCRETN - Managing by DFSMS - SMS Management Class

In a situation related to replication delay, it was necessary to keep the Db2 archive log longer than its current retention period. The subsystem parameter ARCRETN was set as 17 days as in Management Class. The planning was to alter the retention ...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support REORG for DEFINE NO

I have heard, in various IBM presentations (Haakon at IDUG Valencia, John Lyle at CCDB2) talking about Db2 Vnext, the statement "no migration to vnext if you have 6 byte RBA/LRSN or non-UTS tablespaces". This if fine unless you happen to have old ...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Under review

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

Provide capability to set DSSIZE for implicitly created LOB Auxiliary Tablespaces

Currently an implicitly created LOB Auxiliary TS DSSIZE is set to 4G and does not adhere to the zparm IMPDSSIZE or the base TS DSSIZE. We would like the capability to influence the default DSSIZE for LOBs.This would also make it consistent with th...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

SQL Data Insights - Usage of secondary Authid = RACF Group while enabling AI for Table

When enabling AI for a table in the SQL Data Insights user interface, there is no option, to set a different/ secondary Authid = RACF Group. Instead the application uses the UserID from the login in the user interface. As a result, the CREATE TABL...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Modify the DSNJU003 utility to allow it to define anything stored in the Db2 BSDS

When creating and new Db2 member, we must bring it all the way up before we can create the bufferpools, size them, and set the thresholds. We would like the ability to defined them prior to starting the Db2 member/subsystem. When creating an alias...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Officially support the ability to set which version of a REST service is the default one

Db2 REST services, with versioning enabled, sets the first service created via the BIND SERVICE command to be the default service. There is no official way to change which version of a service is the default one. It seems possible to set the defau...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Delivered
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Improving Db2 accounting report

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[Current Product & Version] -Db2 12 for z/OS -IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2Performance Expert on z/OS v5.4 -z/OS v2.3 -WebSphere Application Server v9 for z/OS [Environment] Data sharing in three-way sysplex environment [Problem] Our customer...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration
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ALLOW Database DBADM to DROP VIEW

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Our application development team have the authority to manage application databases in our non-production environments. Using Database DBADM authority they are able to do pretty much everything EXCEPT for DROP VIEW. We need to do this for them (us...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Add a builtin table function that splits a character string

Db2 12 adds the useful LISTAGG function that aggregates a set of string values into a single string.It would be good to have an inverse: a table function SPLIT that takes a string and a separator, and returns a table of string values.The signature...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration