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Monitoring

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Lack of information about Queries from Federated DBs - particulary from DB2 z/OS

From DSM we should be able to see the transactions from federated databases. In the case when we are having some federated transaction contention we are not able to see on the source database on DSM getting more difficulty to diagnose a performanc...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

reduce I/O activity to /etc/services upon each connect

Using filemon, we see 191 accesses to /etc/services for each Connect statement. It seems this file should only be accessed once or twice. This has been verified by IBM personnel with ticket TS001677150.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

db2mtrk not reporting all of memory used

I would like to suggest an update in the documentation. A comment in the db2mtrk page saying that db2mtrk will not report all the memory elements as db2pd -dptnmem.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

deadlock better diagnostic page dump in DIAGPATH

Ref TS000003442, PMR 68950,664,706Ref PMR 67845,664,706In case a deadlock occurs on MDC tables on BID index, diagnostic from Locking Event Monitor is not sufficient to understand deadlock. We need to understand data in conflict pages to check acce...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Add a schedule windows fpr the event monitor

Add an option for the set event monitor command to specify a schedule beginning time and an end time
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

In DPF env Robust single result set for the ALL SQL statistics categories

Memory metrics got introduced in V9.7 and got strong in 10.5. But in DPF there is none of metrics that can report similar to “get snapshot for application agentid global” which returns a single value for all necessary statistics reported in sn...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

New db2 variable to disable the message send into db2diag.log

New db2 variable or clp options to disable the message send into thedb2diag.log
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Ability to report Bufferpool contents(RIMS)

Ability to display contents of a Bufferpool to aid in performance-related investigations.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

LIST INDOUBT TRANSACTIONS via an SQLsnapshot.(RIMS)

Currently, indoubt transactions can only be queried using a command line ''LIST INDOUBT TRANSACTIONS'. Customer requests an SQL snapshot method of returning this information (since using a command line option is too clumsy and hard to automate).
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Not under consideration

In-memory metrics support for (container map reorg stats)(RIMS)

Customer would like to move away from Snapshot monitoring (they hit issues recently where Snapshot latches were holding up other work on the system) but cannot because some information is not yet available via in-memory metrics table functions. Cu...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration