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Db2 for z/OS

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Instrument workfile high-watermarks in ACCTG

This would be useful to all business users that seek to tune their installation for best performance; specifically in the area of MAXTEMPS. Instrument IFCID 0003 and IFCID 0148 counter(s) to show the maximum amount of Workfile used by a thread (4K...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Decrease IFCID 402 volume.

We have a mutual customer that is experiencing a high number of IFCID 402 records. They opened a query with IBM and was told, “ any connection that falls under that filtering scope will have a statistics information block which will get written ou...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Documentation request - Changes that invalidate packages

Documentation request - Changes that invalidate packages This is a great document and I refer to it often when planning production changes. I'd like to see it enhanced so here's a few suggestions. 1) Make the titles for the objects BOL...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enable to check maximum LATCH retention time in DB2PE reports etc

[Current Product & Version]-Db2 12 for z/OS-IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2Performance Expert on z/OS v5.5-z/OS v2.3-WebSphere Application Server v9 for z/OS [Environment]Data sharing in three-way sysplex environment [Problem]Our customer is us...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Resolve issue where DB2 has an issue with invalid MDSNxx Class profiles created in RACF

IBM Please read the case TS013914362. In summary DB2 created dumps/abends when the RACF administrator deleted permissions to some incorrectly formatted profiles in one of the MDSNxx classes. When the administrator performed the permit delete and i...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Provide more granular subsetting option for MONITOR product-type CONNECTIONS FOR SECURITY profiles

The new option to tighten security requirements for connections to Db2 with : MONITOR product-type CONNECTIONS FOR SECURITY Is a great option to enforce certain authentication options. But currently there is not option to subset these profiles to ...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

-DIS STATS(ITC) - Retrofit PH51565 to DB2 v.12 (Fast Traversal Blocks)

We are collecting data from the -DIS STATS(ITC) command once every 15 minutes. We will use that data to help determine the best candidate indexes for fast traversal blocks. Currently under v.12 when you have INDEX_MEMORY_CONTROL set to SELECTED yo...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Dynamic Statement Cache should have information from the field ClientInfo

We use JPA to generate Dynamic SQL in Db2 z/OS. The application ID i sent in the field ClientInfo which helps us to identify the processing. SMF records, Omegamon, Query Monitor and other products contain this information, but not the Dynamic Stat...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Detect corrupted pointers in the free chain and avoid referencing them

We are currently using a USERMOD which detects corrupted pointers in the free chain before referencing them and, if detected, automatically truncates the free chain to avoid referencing bad addresses. If this can be generalized and implemented wit...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered

Add zSCC support for Db2 V12.1

We're requesting support for Db2 12.1 to record SMF 1154 in order to provide data for IBM zSCC - Security and Compliance Center. Db2 12.1 is nowadays a supported version.
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered