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Db2 for z/OS

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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

Permit wildcard on OBJECTSCHEMA of SYSAUDITPOLICIES

We need to activate native DB2 audit policy using SYSAUDITPOLICIES catalog table. In this table we can use wildcard (i.e. '%') for OBJECTNAME column, but no for OBJECTSCHEMA We have different schemas in our subsystem so we need to define more poli...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow BIND EXPLAIN(ONLY) use virtual indexes

It would be very helpful if Db2 allowed (optionally) to use virtual indexes when BIND with EXPLAIN(ONLY) is performed. This can be an additional BIND parameter on whether or not use virtual indexes. This option will eliminate/reduce a need in thir...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Display group shows status of MAINT for subsystem

The display group command should also show a status of MAINT if a member was started access maintenance.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Process PBG same as non-UTS Segmented When Using LISTDEF

When using LISTDEF with “PARTLEVEL 0”, partitioned by growth tablespaces which were converted from non-partitioned segmented tablespaces are no longer being considered as part of the result set. In order to maintain the same result list I would li...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Change DSNTINST CLIST to allow temporary TSO/E EDIT datasets 'userid.editutil%' allocated on non-EVA volumes

Currently DSNTINST clist abends when using TSO/E EDIT macro that is unable to use temp datasets on EAV volumes.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Change Image Copy To Avoid Opening Db2 Data Sets When Making Conditional Image Copies

Our IBM Image Copy jobs are driving 10s of thousands of Db2 data set opens while doing conditional image copies. During our daily batch cycle the vast majority of the data set opens are not needed as there was no activity for the objects stored in...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Remove the OBID limitations in the workfile database

Aapplication threads that perform OPEN / FETCH / CLOSE many many times in a loop without performing a COMMIT can exhaust the OBID limit and suffer SQLCODE -497 From a recent SR....... We see in the dump a SELECT statement using insensitive scrolla...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

include a new READS IFCID for all in-doubt thread display

display Indoubt thread informations that are required to take further steps such as commit/rollback and how to reset the status.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Push up of local predicat...

In PMR 89848.077.724 you see an example that the DB2 optimizer is not able to push out local predicates that are specified in the correlated subquery to the parent query block. The predicates AND "AVADMIN"."TLORM_DBFE"."MANDANT" = ? AND "AVADMIN"....
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

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