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    Stop package invalidation after ALTER MAXPARTITIONS

    These days in an agile world we have to ALTER PBG spaces on-the-fly to raise the MAXPARTITIONS value. Sadly this ALTER, even though it is an immediate ALTER, sets all dependent packages to VALID = 'N' which is, of course, a disaster.
    about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Not under consideration

    Blocking Db2 connections to reduce the DSNL030I message flooding.

    PTF delivery by IDEA DB24ZOS-I-1342 has already included the reduction of the DSNL030I message, it is working well for messages with REASON=00F3008* but the PTF does not include messages with REASON=00D30113 (invalid RACF ID), so these messages st...
    10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0

    SORTDATA NO and AREOR

    We need to change all limitkeys of one of our very large TS (several TBs). This implies that afterwards a REORG must run over the complete TS. Currently Db2 utilities do not fully support EAV volumes (our open requirement Support SORTWK with EAV [...
    2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    When DSNL077I tells us IN-USE DBAT is exceeding 85% of MAXDBAT then ALSO issue DISPLAY THREAD

    DB2 has recently introduced message DSNL077I which tells us when IN-USE DBATS begin to exceed 85% of system parameter MAXDBAT. And the corresponding message of DSNL078I tells us when IN-USE DBATS falls below 75% of MAXDBAT https://www.ibm.com/docs...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Enhanced Instrumentation for workfiles

    A possibility through IFI and/or a new command -DIS WORKFILES to get an “asis” use list of all work pools (Sort , DGTT, Work etc.) This data is crucial for tuning the number, size and type of the work spaces that we all have. The output should be ...
    about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Special type of technical accounts similar to RACF restricted

    Hello, I want to enable our cloud using applications a direct access to Db2 z/OS. Unfortunately a firewall rule allows the access to all readable resources, not only the desired tables / views. So it would be perfect to have a restricted technical...
    3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Way to tell if a Db2 view is not being used any longer

    We are looking for a solution to tell if a Db2 view is still used or not.A request came to our team to rename a column in several tables. One of the tables have multiple view on it, and one of the view includes the column to be renamed. We cannot ...
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Future consideration

    Enable customers running 24/7 to create unique indexes

    Our Internet and Mobile applications are used 24/7 and we do not have any batch windows nor any maintenance windows. When creating new indexes on existing tables the a CREATE INDEX operation generates an unwanted outage when created with DEFER NO....
    almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Future consideration

    API to write dictionary to log

    A number of our common customers run DB2 utilities from third party vendors and IBM replication solutions. They are requesting that our LOAD and REORG utilities write the old dictionary pages to the log for later retrieval by a replication product...
    about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Allow to query and stop an object in one go to avoid STOPP

    HSM allows to move DB2 page sets by stopping them and copying them and then starting the page sets again. HSM does this by DIS DB(...) SP(...) USE and a subsequent STO DB(...) SP(...). If in the small timing window between the DIS command and the ...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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