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Db2 for z/OS

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Moving extra area for IRLM latch information provided by PI93817 from QTXA to a new section.

This is related to PMR 73570,611,760. Applying a PTF for PI93817, new 124 bytes fields for IRLM latch contention counters are added to IFCID QTXA section, which is shared between statistics and accounting trace. However, those new fields are used ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Auditing administrative authorities in DB2 zOS with RACF-Exit DSNX$XAC

DB2 IFCID361 should be written when an administrative authority is used - Independent of the security exit used. When using the full RACF-Exit DSNX$XAC DB2 IFCID361 is not written/supressed , as RACF grants the access -- but does not give back to ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Set DB2 ZPARMs TSQTY and IXQTY to -1

Please would it be possible to set the DB2 for z/OS ZPARMs, TSQTY and IXQTY, to -1? Virtually all of our tablespaces and indexspaces are created with a PRIQTY and SECQTY of -1. It would be really useful to set the default values for TSQTY and IXQ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

RUNSTATS Partition Pageset Processing

DB2 RUNSTATS process opens all pagesets for all partitions and all indexes up front and keeps them open during the life of the utility.Could there be changes made so RUNSTATS utility open pagesets and releases pagesets when needed?
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

To add a built in REVERSE( ) function in the SQL of DB2

CCB want to add an build-in REVERSE( ) function in the SQL of DB2 for z/OS. There is an alternative way of using UDF, but customer worry about it's perfromance, they prefer to add an build-in REVERSE( ) function in SQL. The REVERSE function is use...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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.
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 should optimize queries adequately when are missing or out of date

In V12 it was intended to extend the NPGTHRSH to empty tables and to tables with missing stats. The idea was to pick up the appropriate index which means: if a sort can be avoided choose this one, otherwise pick up the index, which has the most ma...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

TIMESTAMP (6) WITHOUT TIME ZONE NOT NULL GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP - allow ALTER to be able to change GENERATE ALWAY/DEFAULT

TIMESTAMP (6) WITHOUT TIME ZONE NOT NULL GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP - allow ALTER to be able to change GENERATE ALWAY/DEFAULT
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

options itemerror

I'd like to see any error handled by the itemerror parm of the options utility. Currently it only handles those errors that cause a RC8. If it is an unavailable resource or something else that causes an abend the step will abend rather than proces...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Usability improvement of IGNORE OPTION of DB2 LOAD

DBAs can decide to tolerate and ignore certain categories of errors and violations in LOAD processing by specifying the IGNORE keyword . Nevertheless, the SYSOUT of the LOAD with the IGNORE keyword specified, provides only the number of records ig...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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