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Db2 for z/OS

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Dynamic delete (or change) active logs in BSDS

Dynamic delete (or change) active logs in BSDS
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Reset and Collect new statistics in one go

We sometimes need to reset the old statistics in regards to access path selection.This is possible by RUNSTATS ... RESET ACCESSPATH. But in some cases the new RUNSTATS run long enough so that DYNAMIC SQL statements can slip into this timegap.Hence...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enhance SPT01: max partition to more than 1, and Sysadm can amend the PART Size from 64gb to 32gb .

The Tablespace is in VSAM-E format with 252 Extends in already 32Gb size. It cannot create the 2nd Partition .Because the max partition of SPT01 is 1 and the partition size is 64gb. When application sharing the testing environment of UT, ST, SIT ,...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Allow for 16 IFI trace outputs to run concurrently

When a program starts a trace that is to go to destination OPX, there are currently only 8 of these that can be run at a time. This can be somewhat constraining (and has at times caused us some issues). Could this limit be bumped to 16 with the de...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow capability to ALTER the UPDATES column of SYSCOLUMNS

DB2 10 for z/OS eliminates the PARTKEYU system parameter and always behaves as if PARTKEYU was set to YES. However, tables created in DB2 for z/OS Version 5 and earlier can not take advantage of this capability unless the tables are dropped and re...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add zSCC support for Db2 V12.1

We're requesting support for Db2 12.1 to record SMF 1154 in order to provide data for IBM zSCC - Security and Compliance Center. Db2 12.1 is nowadays a supported version.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Option to dictate behaviour regarding deadlock victim selected on deadlocks involving DDL ALTERs

In true 24*7 production environments there is an increasing expectation that simple(on the face of it) DDL changes should be able to break-in concurrent with application workload. In the case of high-arrival rate transactions even at the quietest ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Db2 use secure port only

We would like to be able to use secure connections only in db2. All traffic would have to use the secure port (SECPORT) and the TCPPORT would be disabled.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enable 'Temporal' for DB2...

V12R1M500 enables to optionally activate/deactivate 'Temporal RTS tables'. Please provide to optionally and granular activate/deactivate 'Temporal catalog .... AUTH tables'. We know that temporal for catalog tables will require that the insert int...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Client Application Name (QMDAAPPL from IFCID 0003) used in column RLFEUAN from SYSIBM.DSNRLMTxx tables to governor distributed applications

We would like to use table SYSIBM.DSNRLMTxx (SYSIBM.DSNRLMT01) in order to avoid that certain applications, coming from distributed environment and reaching Db2 for z/OS through DDF, can execute SQL statements. We’d like to completely block these ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 9 Delivered