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DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL issues a message, TOTAL SYNC I/O DELAY FOR BP?? = ?????????? MILLISECONDS.

We are currently are running a bufferpool simulation in production. When I issue the command: -DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL(BP40) DETAIL(INTERVAL) The following message is issued: DSNB432I -DPP2 SIMULATED BUFFER POOL ACTIVITY - AVOIDABLE READ PAGE MISSES - ...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

WCA4Z Explanation should display error messages when using translation to native language

WCA4Z Explanation displays errors when the generation of the explanation fails, for example if a call to the API "/explanation/PL1?level=SIMPLE" fails with the error: "stop_reason":"max_tokens". However, no error is displayed if the error happens ...
16 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Under review

Add Traditional Chinese support for WCA4Z Explanation and Chat features.

Currently, WCA4Z does not support Traditional Chinese in its Explanation and Chat functionalities, which has become a significant barrier for adoption among clients in Taiwan. Many customers have expressed that Traditional Chinese resources are cr...
12 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 11 Under review

Include DB2 Warehouse as a supported quality rule output

From Case number: TS019727896 Within the architecture that we have proposed to be able to use IKC as a Data Governance tool and where DB2 Warehouse is as a fundamental source, we need to have it as an option to create output tables of the results ...
5 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Reverse engineer ZPARM to ASM format like in DSNTIJUZ

Very often the source code of any given ZPARM for a Db2 for z/OS subsystem "disappears". Be it holiday, be it by accident, be it CANCEL after submit... Whatever the reason, the problem is the same: You have a running version of the ZPARM that does...
9 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

APPLCOMPAT use reporting to build a upgrade plan

APPLCOMPAT for packages can be queried from the catalog, but this doesn't mean that the thread runs at that level. Since the introduction of APPLCOMPAT, no old values have been deprecated or removed. However, it seems normal that this will happen ...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

after bind/rebind with VALIDATE(RUN) authorization check of static sql is performed at run time. We need an ability to define, this check against the SQL authorization ID, not package owner

If a plan or package is bound with VALIDATE(RUN), authorization checking is still performed at bind time, but the referenced objects and the privileges required to use these objects need not exist at this time. If any privilege required for a stat...
8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Db2 start command message output and return code

If a Db2 database is in RO mode at database level and you issue a -STA DB(DBName) SP(TSName) ACCESS(RW) command via batch, it outputs "DSNTDDIS 'START DATABASE' NORMAL COMPLETION" which is misleading because the table still cannot be loaded therea...
9 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Improve JSON String Production/Creation

There is an existing known issue documented here . “The schema library manager does not support import of a JSON schema that is based on the IETF (Internet Engineering Task force) JSON schema internet draft.” The lack of support for JSON standard ...
1 day ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Generate recovery JCL for all tablespaces in a database

When you go to a tablespace in the db2 catalogue, you can use line commands U.V* to generate recovery JCL to recover the tablespace to a previous state. What if you want to recover the entire database to a previous state? It would be good if you c...
13 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review