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Db2 for z/OS

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Idle Connection Timeout

We'd like to have a ZPARM and or DB2 Profile, similar to IDTHTOIN or MONITOR IDLE THREADS, that returns idle connections back to the connection pool.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Avoid synchronous preformat in SQL INSERT transactions

[Background]The customer's system providing banking services abroad is exposed to regulatory risk by the local banking regulator.The customer is forced to complete a specific transaction within a second basically.This specific SQL INSERT transacti...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Port number info in DSNL200I msg For TCP/IP server connections

The DSNL200I msg for TCP/IP server (S) connections doesn't indicate the port number in the LOCATION column toghther with IP address.This information is useful to identify the DB/2 subsystems/members connected to the local DB/2 subsystem.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Managing status of DB2 REST services

One of the really good things about the REST implementation is that it is based on static SQL. This makes it possible for us to get to know what services will be affected before we do some maintenance to one or more referenced tables. But, without...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

DB2 Generated Always Timestamp Field - Default Values Change

The 'default value' for a generated always time stamp column is the last PAGE update time stamp or LRSN, but the LRSN can change and thus the default value changes. Which means that until you REORG the object, when you update a single row on a DB2...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Visibility dynamic statement cache users of tables involved in resource unavailable on an EXCHANGE DATA

EXCHANGE DATA failing with -904 rc00E70081 DSNT408I SQLCODE = -904, ERROR: UNSUCCESSFUL EXECUTION CAUSED BY AN UNAVAILABLE RESOURCE. REASON 00E70081, TYPE OF RESOURCE 00000A00, AND RESOURCE NAME PCPS0004. ADVSRY_ACCT_ACT_14566 DSNT500I -PROD DSNXI...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

In DB2 avoid creation of segmented tablespace

Need to have a zparm parameter to inhibit creation of segmented tablespace
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

EVENTID in DIS UTIL output

When running a utility in Db2 13 it is recorded in table SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES with an EVENTID. If the utility execution stops, causes or has problems it would be of great help if we colud see the EVENTID in the output from command DIS UTIL. This wa...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

START/STOP PROFILE ENHANCEMENT

Add START/STOP PROFILE for individual PROFILEIDs this would allow us to only affect that particular profile. In our example, we are using the profile to push certain ids to use our function level 507 NULLID packages. If we do a STOP those profiles...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Increase Password Size for DB2 Supplied Stored Procedures

We have recently converted from passwords to pass phrases. A number of the IBM supplied stored procedures have passwords limited to VARCHAR(24) and our InfoSec dept is requiring at least 25 at preferably up to 32 chars. These stored procedures do ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered