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Add columns to the RTS tables

The two real-time Statistics tables in the DB2 catalogue have lots of useful data. But they would much more useful if they had some additional columns: SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACESTATS#1 #Times row was updated since defined.#2 #Times row was updated sinc...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Workgroups - compute nodes on isolated network

IBM Spectrum LSF Suite for Workgroups LSF Master node has three NICs (public, xCAT provisioning, and high speed InfiniBand). LSF Client nodes has two NICs (xCAT provisioning and high speed InfiniBand). By default, deployment starts Elastic Search ...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Installation 0 Not under consideration

To consider IX included columns to solve db2 foreign key implicit accesses

As mentioned in PMR related, the DB2 is not considering the INCLUDED COLUMNS to FK implicit access atempt causing a bad performance.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

V12-CERT-2017 Additional Columns in SYSLEVELUPDATES

When migrating to Continuous Delivery on several DB2 data sharing groups and implementing different function levels across our environment, we'd like a way to get the Group Name other than by display command. We could then use that information to ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Remote stored procedure bind deploy change request

SYSTEM:DB2 Remote stored procedure bind deploy We use the below JCL to move DB2 stored procedures from remote DB2 test environment DB2 Production environment. The qualifier/schema changes between test and production. //JS010 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT1B,DYNA...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Achieve less than 10 seconds site switch by coordinated interactions between DB2 and QREP

To achieve less than 10 seconds site switch by coordinated interactions between DB2 and QREP Description: Only need to issue one command, then finish all following operations: 1. Turn on SOFTFENCE for entire database (can be at DB Level), protecti...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Improve adaptive indexes for multi-column indexes

Currently adaptive index works great for single column indexes, but the following example multiple index is not considered:SELECT something FROM T1 WHERE col1 BETWEEN :H1 AND :H2 AND col2 BETWEEN :H3 AND :H4and there are indexes I1 on (col1, co...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PIPE support for UDTF

We would like to see PIPE support added to allow DB2 to return rows as they are created from a select of UDTF.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support global array definitions

Allow a global schema for user defined types.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Deadlock between 2 Inserts because of Pseudo Deletes

We recently ran into deadlocks issue while doing QA tests for a major application delivery, our DB2 traces revealed that the deadlocks were always between 2 inserts, what we did not understand was why there was a S lock (on a ROW/PAGE) in deadlock...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration