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Search results: Db2 for z/OS

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Prevent package invalidation after ALTER TABLE ROTATE

System: Production management databaseActor: Developers maintaining the databaseDescription: Our customer runs a 24/7 production management OLTP system with IMS V10 and DB2 V9 for z/OS on which its transaction rate gets as high as 10 trans/sec, an...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1

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

Enhance Db2 System profiles to allow exceptions

System profiles are being used to control applcompat levels for distributed connections. This is being done by trapping on the default db2 driver COLLECTION NULLID then setting the attributes to another collection using a higher applcompat. This w...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration
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ALLOW Database DBADM to DROP VIEW

Merged
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...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

need SQL tuning component

Now, we are using DSM to manage 235 sets of Db2 databases, of which SQL tuning is a more commonly used function for our system administrators and DBAs. We often use the SQL tuning function to optimize the SQL statements running in the production e...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Passphrase support for JDBC Type-2 Connection to DB2/zOS

System: Db2 z/OSActor: New Feature: Type-2 JCBC-Connection with passphrases support. In some cases we have to use Type-2 JDBC database connection along with passphrases. Actually, this feature is currently not supported as we tested following setu...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Materialized Query tables in DB2 z/OS with refresh immediate option

MQT's - Materialized Query tables - are a well known feature in all advanced relational database systems. The DB2 family has this feature since more than 10 years. If you look at this functionality in DB2 LUW and DB2 z/OS the MQT functionality loo...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 10 Not under consideration

Have new authority for REFRESH of MQT that does not require high privilege levels

We historically have an application batch userid that has DBADM authority. We are limiting all access to this ID to the minimally required authority it requires such as load, imagecopy and runstats at the DB level. When we started converting our t...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Return SQL error when DBA attempts ALTER DDL with both pending and immediate changes, instead of returning "0" and "losing" a change.

We recently opened an SR TS005591497 with support when we found that an ALTER to a LOB tablespace specifying both PRIQTY and COMPRESS returned SQLCODE 0, but the PRIQTY was "lost". IBM support pointed out the following: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Is a defect

Apply security restriction in Db2 table only via database connector tools (but not from database objects)

There are few use cases where Db2 table access must be restricted only from DB connector tools(eg; SPUFI, QMF or DSE in IDz or any other DB visualizer) but not from the database object itself. To explain further, we do have home grown tools(x1) us...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists