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Db2 for z/OS

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DB2 message showing a trace was started

Today we have situations where people authorized to start DB2 traces sometimes issue START TRACE commands with little qualifications with lead to traces being collected for lots of DB2 threads which ends having impact on general performance of the...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add support for CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW syntax

I've seen that Db2 LUW and other types of databases support the syntax to do CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW. This can be useful as you don't have to have a separate statement to drop a view before rerunning a create statement. I had a new DB2 DBA on our t...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Availability of DROP SYSTEM PERIOD for System temporal tables.

When a table is defined as a system temporal and the changes need to be reverted for any specific reason - A drop of system period would be needed. This functionality is available in Db2 LUW. Without this, the table has to be dropped and recreated.
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Remove the limit on the number of secondary IDs

The documentation states: If RACF is active and the “list of groups” option is active, the routine sets the list of Db2 secondary IDs to the list of group names to which the RACF user ID is connected. The maximum number of groups is 1012. Since RA...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

RID problem instrumentation improvement

The IFI 2 & 3 fields QISTRLLM and QISTRPLM and the RID fields in the 316 and 401 are all basically “useless” these days to actually detect a RID related limit problem. I know that the QXRFMIAP is available in the IFI 2 & 3 but it is needed...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

There should be a table like SYSUTILITIES that contains Db2 Commands that have been issued

There should be a table like SYSUTILITIES , say SYSCOMMANDS, that contains Db2 Commands that have been issued, including the full text of the Db2 command that was issued.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

The ability to apply the DB2 Connect Unlimited Licence directly on zOS

It would be useful for DB2 sysprogs to be able to apply the DB2 Connect Unlimited Licence to a database natively on zOS without the need to install the runtime client and run the db2connectactivate utility.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Instantiated temp tables with full functionality

The SAP data dictionary supports the creation of temp tables. This allows application developers to speed up the processing by temporarily storing result sets of queries in the database and later process them. The data is only kept until commit. T...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DISPLAY DB Command CLAIMERS does not list LOAD utility

Our DBAs have realized that when a load job is running against a tablespace and the load utility is active, the display claimer did not show the jobname that are executing the job. However , the display use does show the job name. For example: -DI...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Is a defect

Improved LATCH when index splitting

[Current Product & Version]-Db2 12 for z/OS-IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2Performance Expert on z/OS v5.5-z/OS v2.3-WebSphere Application Server v9 for z/OS [Environment]Data sharing in three-way sysplex environment [Problem]Our customer is us...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration