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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

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

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...
3 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

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

Add Db2 Data Set Statistics information in EUI

We use data set statistics often to determine where additional indexes may be beneficial, in order to reduce IO by scans. We use the EUI the most in our shop. Having this information there would be most helpful to us.
3 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Filter thread history by package name

On panel KDPHFIL3, have a selection criteria of Package Name to filter results
3 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

XES IRLM Requests

We want to see that total number for XES IRLM requests on TEPS situation. There are just Db2 Global Contention and Db2 False Contention attributes from Db2 Group Coupling Facility attributestable to create the situations.
about 2 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

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

Adding QDBPPFIX to the realqdbp ODI table.

We want to establish a process to monitor when 4k frames are being utilized for buffer pools defined with framesize(1m). When we try to setup a situation for it, we realized that there is no QDBPPFIX under the list of DB2 BP Attributes, so we requ...
4 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration