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Db2 for z/OS

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Bypass Package BIND/REBIND Locks for EXPLAIN(ONLY)

We have an analysis tool that we use to analyze potential changes in access paths. For timeliness of analysis our need is to use this tool during the business day. The tool uses EXPLAIN(ONLY) as a BIND parameter. Based on system workload, we exper...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

RTS history table outside DSNDB06

With DB2 12 new function features, IBM added RTS temporal history option. This is an excellent option, considering we used to perform that manually. Unloading and reloading the STATS into a history table. The new option, creates 2 new tables with ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Fix timeout errors during pending alter materialization reorgs

We're using DB2 z/OS V10 and tried using pending alter for making online schema change on an SAP table to increase a PBG table's DSSIZE from 4 GB to 64 GB. When we ran the SHRLEVEL CHANGE reorg to implement the pending alter, the reorg caused SAP ...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Autobind retries

We would like in the form of a zparm parameter or as a parameter within a package the ability to have failed autobinds of packages be retried a number of times based on this parameter. We have a routine process that does several alter rotates whic...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add more criteria for MONITOR CONNECTIONS in DB2 PROFILE tables

Currently the DB2 PROFILE table only allows LOCATION as the selection criteria with the MONITOR CONNECTIONS keyword. We would like to restrict the number of connections a particular application can open, but the connections can: 1) come via a shar...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Authorization Switching for ADMIN_COMMAND_DB2 and DSNUTILU

ADMIN_COMMAND_DB2 and execution of DSNUTILU need to have the capability to allow for authorization switching. Our developers and application production support teams need to be able to cancel threads relevant to the jobs they support vs having to ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

New DSNACCOX tablespace reorg threshold

Stored procedure DSNACCOX has thresholds for tablespace unclustered inserts (RRTUnclustInsPct) and page splits from updates (RRTIndRefLimit). These both cause fragmentation. However, there is no threshold for the sum of these two, even though many...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Change DSNARNMG to have a user define task name

Currently there's a hard coded name in module DSNARNMG. That program always tries to start a task called: DB2UDSMD. That is unacceptable for some installations where they have job and task name standards. This RFE is to add a new ZPARM to allow th...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow threads which use the accelerator (IDAA) to go inactive

Today, once a distributed thread has had a query offloaded to IDAA, that thread can never go inactive again. The desired behavior change is to allow distributed threads which utilize the accelerator to follow the same rules for going inactive as a...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

If ADMIN_UTL_SCHED is used for imagecopies it should put the triggering jobname/CorrID into SYSIBM.SYSCOPY

If ADMIN_UTL_SCHED is used do to image copies it writes the name of the wlm-addressspace to the jobname columne of SYSIBM.SYSCOPY. We like to see the name of the triggering job/CorrID there, because we need this information. An alternative would b...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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