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REORG DISCARD support writing a spanned record

Running a REORG DISCARD on a user tablespace with LONG VARCHAR message :- DSNU297I - COMPOSITE RECORD SIZE TOO LARGE FOR.......... is received.BTW, UNLOAD without 'NOPAD', the problem occur; whetheras, with 'NOPAD', the problem doesn't occur.
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 accounting SMF101 with reporting class

The absence of report class in DB2 SMF record 101 is cumbersome for capacity management. Report Class is used for workload reporting and accounting. To match SMF 72 (values by report class) with SMF 101 (values by thread, i.e. for userid and other...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 trace accounting records constraint filter by contents

My customer needs to gather SMF101 performance record to obtain stored procedures performance metrics. This is very important for them in order to deploy a DB2 stored procedures in production so they can effectively troubleshoot performance issues...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSNTIAUL INVALID PARMS check

For DSNTIAUL, TOLWARN parm YES indicate DSNTIAUL continues to retrieve rows after receiving an SQL warning. Correct parm format is PARMS('SQL,num,TOLWARN(YES)'). When using invalid format, incorrect output occurs.
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Async lock request wait time in CF shows up in "Not Accounted" in the DB2 Accounting information

Because of approx 9 km distance between 2 data centers and also (in testing environment) non-optimal configuration of the CF setup, we get a log of ASYNC requests for LOCKs. As descibed in the PMR the time for this will not be accounted in relatab...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Lock escalation on HISTORY STATISTICS catalog tables for DROP statement

add the ability for lock escalation on the catalog tables which contains the HISTORICAL STATISTISCs data (SYSIBM.SYS...HIST)
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide value for MAXTEMPS parm in percentage of total dasd space and create 2 separated options for sort and dgtt workfiles

The introduction of new parameter MAXTEMPS, to avoid the situation where one task monopolize all temporary tablespaces space, with only an absolute space value as an option leaks flexibility. 1) We need to have two parameters, one for sort areas a...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Index-Only tables

request, xref MR1113081118 For a table where all columns are used in the primary index, allow only the index definition rather than having to define tablespace and indexspace, or have the table use an index access like process, rather than a table...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add View Support to temporal time tables

Add support for views to tables which contain both SYSTEM and BUSINESS TIME. For single table views, please limit restrictions on ISRT / UPDT so that the view can be utilized in much the same manner as any other view.
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create DPSI with "unique within partition" option

Customer would like to have the option to create a DPSI on a very large partitioned tablespace where NPI is not desired which is "unique within partition". In the particular case where this would be especially useful, the partitioning is done with...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration