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zIIP enables FPECMAIN

Processing huge volume of DB2 Accounting records require significant amount of GCP CPU, DB2PM has become a less attractive product in terms of processing costs. To maintain the product's attractiveness, portion of processing should be made zIIP el...
about 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 2 Future consideration

LOAD should be compatible with a snapshot backup

LOAD is not compatible when an integrated snapshot backup (or when the backup is issued with the USE SNAPSHOT option) is being performed. During an integrated snapshot backup, in addition to the database being put into set write suspend state, it ...
2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Under review

Add compatibility check between a PDB artifacts and the respective TKANMOD lib to avoid LOAD step failures

During a recent upgrade of Omegamon, the holddoc was reviewed, and no references to the PDB were found. Due to this fact, the team performing the upgrade did not include the team that specifically supports this database and the loading of these ta...
about 1 year ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

INPLACE REORG should always be interruptible

Under certain circumstances it is not possible to stop/pause or force an INPLACE REORG that waits for a lock (TS019866410). Because the INPLACE REORG does not respect lock timeouts, it hangs in "lock wait" until the lock holding session releases t...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Submitted

Option to exclude temporary tablespaces from Db2 Snapshot Backup

It would be advantageous, if we could exclude temporary tablespaces from the Db2 Snapshot Backup (using IBM Storage Protect Snapshot)Because the temporary tablespaces have to be included its corresponding filesystems need to have “Mirror write con...
9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Future consideration

Show IDAA data in TEP

In E3270 mode it's possible to view (detailed) IDAA theads. In TEP there's nothing like that. However, there is some IDAA data available, so we created an own view, but it would be nice to have this default delivered as it is in E3270.
over 2 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Extend the Value of Omegamon Near-Term History

The Performance Database tables holds history information about Db2 activity, and the sequential output dataset created by NTH can be used as the input to create LOAD files with data to populate most of the tables, but not all. The problem is tha...
over 6 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support the arrow keys in Db2 CLP on Linux

The Db2 CLP, since decades, does not handle arrow keys. This makes it hard to quickly go back to previous commands and edit statements. It's a nuisance to most Db2 users. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62298637/using-arrow-keys-within-db2...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Submitted

Agent O2 should run on zIIP

We see that agent O2 is consuming more and more CSU, but very little runs on zIIP. Please see other Omegamon agents (C5 and RTEMS) with high CSU usage and using more zIIP. Regards Andrea Strixner
about 5 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

z/OS Batch interface to omegamon

There should be an interface that allows the user to take specific actions via a z/OS job and capture the screen results in a z/OS dataset. This will allow a user to create a standard job to take any action they routinely execute and capture the r...
about 5 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration