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Db2 for z/OS

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Display DSNT741I message to MSTR address space regardless of source.

Currently, after the start profile command is successful, the system will generate DSNT741I message. This is relayed back to wherever the command was issued. I'd suggest also displaying the command in the master regardless of the source.
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

DSNI052I Work File Message Enhancement

We have frequent alerts about Work File issue, but when it is triggered by a distributed connection as below, it does not really help us much to identify the culprit. All Java threads do use the same CorrelationID and Package Name and we have tens...
13 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Index on Expression with Soundex Function

For most Index on Expression uses we've been able to just include the function as part of the index without any extra changes involved. Such as with the column UPPER(colname). Just create the index with that option. However SOUNDEX requires that y...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

REORG DISCARD for RTS history tables

The history data collected in SYSTABSPACESTATS_H and SYSIXSPACESTATSS_H are filled so quickly and causes huge impact on catalog and directory storage group. However the only maintenance mechanism available at the moment is delete command with wher...
12 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Add a message to report orphan threads in DB2

Due to TCPIP abend, there are several orphan threads in DB2 causing contention issues on resources. There is no message to report these orphan threads. Having a report helps us to avoid contention issues sooner by cancelling the underlying orphan ...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Add TCPIP DROP to CANCEL THREAD FORCE to clear orphan threads from DB2 incase of TCPIP abend

Orphan threads can be cancelled with CANCEL THREAD FORCE. No need to issue TCPIP DROP separately.
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Better info -904 Dynamic SQL

In Case TS018158208 we described Our clients gets due a exchange: EXCHANGE DATA BETWEEN TABLE <owner>.<tablename> AND <owner>.<tablename-CLONE>; SQLERROR ON EXCHANGE COMMAND, EXECUTE FUNCTION RESULT OF SQL STATEMENT: DSNT40...
7 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

-DISPLAY PROCEDURE - Show All Stored Procedure Types

Show Native Stored Procedures in -DIS PROC regardless of DEBUG mode. The existing limitation becomes a monitoring showstopper as more and more Native SQL SPs are utilized in Production.
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

RUNSTATS TABLESPACE on one TS partition scans all partitions of partitioned indexes

We encountered that the RUNSTATS on one TABLESPACE partition via RUNSTATS TABLESPACE ... PART or via LISTDEF INCLUDE TABLESPACE ... PARTLEVEL scans all partitions of a partitioned index. Therefore the runtime and the zIIP time of the jobs are extr...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

zIIP Eligible Q-APPLY

Currently the SQL Queries in QREP Apply are CPU-intensive. The CPU cost of those queries cost more than our top 5 application programs combined. We recommend to make Q APPLY Queries zIIP eligible to reduce the CPU cost for QREP APPLY.
7 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

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