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Db2 for z/OS

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improved estimation for potential use of Huffman Compression

Requirement for more accurate estimates of DASD space savings when using Huffman Compression. Problem is that estimates produced by DSN1COMP can be significantly inaccurate i.e., as much as +/- 30%. The solution required is a new option on the REO...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow a Db2 z/OS Server to request clients set other JDBC Data Server Driver parameters, such as minTransportObjects or maxTransportObjects

In FL502 of Db2 13, IBM offers MODIFY DDF with the "RQSTWLB" option which allows the Db2 server to tell clients to enable Sysplex Workload Balancing (enableSysplexWLB=true) as long as the client doesn't explicitly set WLB to "false". It would be b...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Db2: Recovery of Mainframe Db2 databases without applying changes.

When the DB2 is performing a recover it uses log and copy files, it may be some sitations where the log contains changes that we dont want to restore. For exemple we may have inserts made by an authorized program and also updates performed by an u...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Control DB2 z/OS IFCID 376 trace volume

When we need to turn on IFCID 376 trace to get information, the trace is an all or nothing setting for the system. In our case, the volume generates in excess of 56 million IFCID 376 records in a day. 99.9% of them are 1108: Long client special Re...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Stop Package invalidation on Enable/Disable System Time

System time has proven to be a very valuable resource, but there are some limitations that make it difficult to administer. One of those limitations is that when system time is enabled or disabled it invalidates any static package accessing the ba...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

432 VLDB - Reorg to Over-ride/ignore parms

We reorg a list of Tablespaces with a template and use STACK=YES. If a tablespace has an underlying LOB the reorg is abended. The requirement is to not have the REORG abend if the parameters are valid for the base table. SUGGESTION: We would like ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

LOCK1-Structure

By drop database with many objects (TS,IX,Part) and a lot of statistic data, it can happen that the Lock1 structure gets full. Other possible reasons for LOCK1-Structure full conditions during DDL (DROP): - Object has to many entries in SYSIBM.SYS...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reorg Rebalance should consider available pages (FREEPAGE, DSSIZE)

Reorg Rabalance should not always distribute the rows evenly across the partitions, but instead should also take into account the available space, e.g. if the partitions have different DSSIZE distributing the rows evenly is not feasable. The same ...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

256 VLDB2012 - DB2 command addition -DISPLAY SCHEMA

DB2 commands need to be improved in many aspects to provide additional usability, functionality and detail. -DISPLAY SCHEMA This would provide identical functionality to -DISPLAY DATABASE but with qualifiers based on SCHEMA and TABLE/INDEX (OBJECT...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CREATE TABLE ...LIKE support for AoT Tables

Currently, A CREATE TABLE statement must not contain a LIKE clause that references an accelerator-only table. It is documented in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPEK_12.0.0/codes/src/tpc/n270.html
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration