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Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS

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Create a new report in additional to ANLDELTA, one line per SQL statement meeting the filtering requirements

Need new report to make it easy to see queries easily which have increased costs, decreased costs and new statements. This is based on filters. ANLDELTA has alot of detail which makes it very difficult to determine what queries with increase cost ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Add capability to run TEST with APREUSE(WARN) added to the REBIND

ADP is rebinding packages with APREUSE(WARN). This attempts to use the same access path for each SQL statement. Since SQL/PA TEST is not running with this, the product will produce more changes which is not true when APREUSE(WARN) is used.
over 2 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

SQL/PA - Going from ANLPFILE to various options causes package location to be blank where it was populated previously.

Don't blank it out.
over 2 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

SQL/PA COMPARE - add Statement matching option 2 - match like "1", but also compare the SQL statement text

This should be added as it exists in the TEST function. I believe this is more important in COMPARE than in TEST. TEST is taking a package from the catalog and just rebinding it. I don't see how any queryno should change value. But when COMPARE is...
over 2 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

SQL/PA - TEST with Explain Type D, VERSION, New Version is PH37648.51 and not Package version

When Explain Type is D, New Version is on report is populated with latest APAR instead of the package version. New Package version should be the from the package being explained. New version should be RLSE2142 not PH37648.51 | OLD |NEW VERSION |RL...
over 2 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Capture cost and path information for New SQL to help DBAs determine if there might be an access problem

There is a new release of application code. Currently SQL/PA does a COMPARE of current and previous access paths. There is a hole for NEW SQL that takes a bad access path. DBAs need to know if this is occurring.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

ANLPJCL - When line is blank, exiting and coming back into the product, + is generated on the JCL jobcard

When the jobcard line is blank, SQL/PA should store //*. The product is populating the blank line with + when the product is exited and then entered again. This would prevent JCL errors because + is generated in the first character on the jobcard.
over 3 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Delivered

Systems Paramenters - buffers population should be automated not manual

Have alot of subsystems and this is a major issue pain point to enter the correct information and keeping it up to date
over 4 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow different HLQ than SQLPA SMPE installed target libraries RFE 126305

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=126305 allow to specify a different HLQ, than the HLQ of the SQLPA SMPE installed target libraries, so that SANLCSV gets honoured correctly and that later invocations do not ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enable what-if when invoked from ANLCSPA RFE 125687

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=125687 Customer wants that WHAT-IF function is also available when SQLPA is invoked with ANLCSPA Use Case Customer often invokes explain function outside of SQLPA...
over 5 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered