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Db2 for z/OS

Enhance Utility History Tables to record DSNTIAUL unloads

I am missing that the unloads made with DSNTIAUL be recorded at the Utilities History tables. In fact, I came here to vote an idea like this, taking for granted that someone had already opened it asking for this. :-) Sorry if there's already one, ...
2 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Provide a status flag in a SYSIBM table for Indexes

Provide a status flag in a SYSIBM table for Indexes similar to how a status flag is provided for tablespaces in SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE. The 'STATUS' column in SYSIBM.SYSINDEXES does not provide the same type of information about index statuses as th...
10 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

New Alert for Active Log Dataset Time Span reaching defined Timeframe

There is lots of good instrumentation and documented processes known and available on how to calculate and monitor db2 active and archive log metrics like volumes, log switches and usage thresholds. But each and every customer has to buid their ow...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Availability of source Queue name in store proc for MQ Listener

We are currently implementing the DB2 MQ Listener to archive MQ message : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/13.0.0?topic=zos-creating-sample-stored-procedure-use-mqlistener and would like to have the name of the queue on which the listener i...
about 19 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Enhancement to DSNREX in Db2 to handle ATTN key termination of programs

We encountered a hang in our environment causing locks to not get resolved in CF lock structure due to terminating Rexx process with ATTN key. We ask that the DSNREX facility in Db2 be modified to use TSO STAX routines to allow for clean terminati...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Attributes for implicit objects per database

We create private databases for our developers and some business analysts. User ABC123 has his own database called ABC123 and is DBADM for that database. In these databases they can mess around as much as they want and they can create tables there...
2 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Support LOCATION Wildcards and Subnet Matching for Query Accelerator Offload Profiles

We use Db2 Profiles to manage queries that are candidates for acceleration due to their execution cost, but that originate from ETL processes distributed across all departments of our company. Processes such as Sqoop, NiFi, Kafka, Spark, PowerCent...
22 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Enhancement to improve Db2 z/OS v13 storage management resilience

We recently experienced some DB2 abends caused by the communication buffer pool being full. A single application consumed most of the buffer space. Currently, the communication buffer pool is 6 gigabytes in size, but there is no way to adjust or m...
21 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Planned for future release

DB2 for Z/OS message DSNB555I reformated to be extermely easy for a DB2 Sysadmin or DBA to find and use in JESMSGLG

DSNB555I is verbose, making it dificult to process quickly. The message for DSNB555I is split across 5 lines. Being split across multiple lines that makes it difficult to process. I have to EXCLUDE ALL LINES and then do 4 FINDS to get the TS, Pool...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Improve Automatic Index Cleanup for Large or Long-Running Delete Workloads

In some workloads involving large or long-running delete operations, we have observed that automatic index cleanup may not reclaim a significant portion of eligible pseudo-deleted index entries after the delete transaction completes. As a result, ...
9 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review