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Db2 for z/OS

Display CDDS command

We opened both TS022609404 & TS022550954 and had a question on the ability to add a DISPLAY CDDS. We understand there is no current such command, but you can issue a DISPLAY LOG command and get a DSNJ375I message giving the CDDS name and the m...
3 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

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, ...
9 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

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...
17 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...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

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...
29 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Make SYSIBM.DSNSERVICE table a catalog table

The usage of REST service is growing by the day and becoming an integral part of the application requirements and Db2 capability to service workloads. the REST services are also making an impact to the various automation possibilities in the user ...
3 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

Make predicate "numcol IN (:hv1, :hv2)" indexable where :hv1 and :hv2 are char variables and numcol is numeric.

Db2 already supports numcol = :hv1 as indexable where :hv1 is a char variable and numcol is numeric.
5 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...
29 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Planned for future release

Allow multiple packages with copy collection

We have a collection for our DB2 Connect packages bound that we would like to be able to copy without having to code one copy per package. Change the copy command to allow all packages in a collection to be included in one command. Example COPY PA...
29 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

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, ...
16 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review