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Search results: Db2 for z/OS

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Allow ALTER TABLE xxx COLUMN yyy SET NOT NULL

The ability to change nearly everything about a column is really cool in Db2. Sadly, the one thing that you cannot easily change is the NULLability of any given column. This is definitely a requirement all over the place and currently can only be ...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review
119 VOTE

Resolve a restriction that CACHE DYN STABILITY function can not use with CONCENTRATE WITH LITERALS option.

Customer environment Db2 V12 <- DRDA -> Db2connect/JDBC(IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ type 2) Server side.(JDBC Type2 is used) Windows server: - WebSphere BASE 9.0.0 (Windows2016) - Db2client / IBM Data Server Runtime Client V11.1...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Enable dropping tablespace partitions without changing to data capture none

With the ability to convert tablespaces from PBR to PBG and back, we are now able to drop partitions in both PBRs and PBGs. However, this requires that we switch off data capture on the table for the duration of the change.As we are using CDC to r...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

SORTDATA NO and AREOR

We need to change all limitkeys of one of our very large TS (several TBs). This implies that afterwards a REORG must run over the complete TS. Currently Db2 utilities do not fully support EAV volumes (our open requirement Support SORTWK with EAV [...
18 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Improving serviceability and messaging for REORG TABLESPACE LASTLOG NO processing

We are using LASTLOG NO option and get the error message "DSNU590I DSNURLOG - RESOURCE NOT AVAILABLE, REASON=X'00C9000A',"The current explanation of the reason code does not match the behaviour which is happening here. After opening a case they ex...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

When executing an ALTER TABLE <table> ROTATE PARTITION please do NOT invalidate dependent packages

ALTER TABLE <table> ROTATE PARTITION is described as an ONLINE schema change. However in our 24/7 environment with tables being used frequently around the clock we cannot execute ALTER TABLE <table> ROTATE PARTITION on our most heavily...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

DB2 z/OS - Message id - DSNJ110E - Additional alerts for active log monitoring and highlighted new message id when DB2 logging was suspended

We had a major incident due to suspended logging for one of the critical customer. One of the critical production DB2 subsystem logging was suspended , caused by stalled archive log offloading process due to insufficient storage space on archive...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

IRLM enhancement in case of global deadlock processing

We had a situation which was described in case TS015567644. The symptom was that IRLM could not fully process the complete deadlock stuff of all members of an 8-way DS system. Therefore we get DXR167E in some of the members. Additional workload wi...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improvement of FlashCopy Load on a PBR

When loading with LOG NO a PBR at tablespace level, all partitions will be copied by FlashCopy and not only the ones that were updated. But when FLASHCOPY NO is specified, only the partitions that were update will get COPY PENDING flag. The FlashC...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Enhance ALTER of STOGROUP

Would like additional flexibility to change storage options without taking outages. First situation, we had a special storage group defined with a specific STORCLAS that was used to isolate a specific subset of data. That isolation is no longer ne...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration