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Db2 for z/OS

DCLGEN to Generate Cobol structures for Unicode Data

DCLGEN currently generates Cobol structures assuming all data in EBCDIC - i.e. it generates PIC X for character data. The majority of new tables are now created as Unicode and so the option to have DCLGEN generate Cobol structure with PIC N or PIC...
2 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Implement the same logic for TERMINATE Connection as for CREATE Connection (PH67087)

We want to tune our MAXDBAT values based on workload related DBAT processing. But currently the counters like QDSTHWAT are overloaded by the TERMINATE connection processing. For CREATE Connection ther eis already an APAR which solves this problem ...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

ALTER Bufferpool enhancement for 1M page frames

Today it could happen that z/OS converts 1M page frames to 4k page frames due to demand of jobs. If Db2 admin has requested a special amount of LFAREA for 1M frames in SYS1.PARMLIB for a later ALTER BPOOL, this amount could be consumed by the prev...
11 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Enhance Utility History Function to Support DSNUTILU and DSNUTILV

The current utility history function in Db2 for z/OS is incomplete since it does not record utilities that are executed via the Db2-supplied stored procedures DSNUTILU and DSNUTILV. This gap in functionality is especially troublesome for customers...
17 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Enhance CATMAINT output to show what has been done.

Please enhance the CATMAINT output to actually show what has been done. Currently when we execute CATMAINT to change the catalog level, the following output is produced: DSNU000I 083 15:07:58.39 DSNUGUTC - OUTPUT START FOR UTILITY, UTILID = RELODC...
17 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

CSWL for PREPARE that calls a TBF

Currently, a PREPARE statement that calls a TBF with literals doesn't benefit from CSWL - concentrate statement with literals (even with this is explicitly requested). This causes high resource usage for the PREAPRE and avoids usage of the DSC. In...
24 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

REORG utility does not fix UNLOAD and RELOAD task relation

In case of ALTER LIMITKEY the UNLOAD and RELOAD task fix relation could end up in the fact that REORG can use only one task for UNLOAD and hence one task for RELOAD. This impacts REORG utility performance. In our case one UNLOAD/RELOAD task versus...
24 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Not under consideration

VERIFY scalar function

I do have a column with invalid data select * from table where verify(name,'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÅÆØ0123456789')>0 the 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÅÆØ0123456789' is the chars that is valid in the column that can be x number of chars the sel...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Externalize instrumentation (IFCID) written at archive time

The IFCID should contain active log dataset name active log dataset size active log span (time interval Db2 has written log records into that log data set / After how many minutes was the log archived?) How full was the log (in percent) at the tim...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

DB2 Plan invalidation

As of V13, a DB2 Plan packlist can point to specific packages. If all versions of the package are freed the Plan is invalidated. We've had a number of instances where programmers have removed programs no longer in use and invalidated active plans....
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review