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Db2 for z/OS

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Copy with option Changelimit and Template switching based on changed pages

Whe are using the TEMPLATE SWITCHING with a LIMIT 16 MB in a Copy with option CHANGELIMIT. The allocation of copies is made during the utilinit and is based on 10% of the HI-U-RBA and not on the pages to be copied. In this way some very large copi...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow DB2 system agents be offloaded to zIIP regardless of iiphonorpriority settings

In DB2 11, if the subsystem come up and detects that IIPHONORPRIORITY=NO, then the system agents will no longer be dispatched to zIIP. We would like that system agents will be offloaded to zIIP regardless of iiphonorpriority settings.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve messaging surrounding the +20272 SQL warning in cases of a -904

A DBA was running an ALTER NOT CLUSTER. The ALTER should have converted the tablespace to table-controlled partitioning, but it encountered a -904. I have copied the output to "additional details". In the SPUFI output, after the -904, the ALTER di...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

FR583: Enhance IFCID 316 to capture stats of UDFs as well

When the following dynamic SQL query is issued, processing the query involves processing a UDF. This works fine. However, when looking at SQL dynamic statements stats in a DB2 monitor, which retrieves IFCID 316 data from DB2, the data provided is ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

FR581: Enable pushdown and transitive closure for LIKE with parameter markers to table expressions

As part of SAP Core Data Services (CDS), SAP supports 'type as you search' capability when entering values in panels. As part of this processing, they issue the following query on a view which includes a UNION clause. The access path with DB2 is n...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DSNHDECP usage

The DSNHDECP modules is currently used in our shop and needs to be created for every DB2 subsystem, or data sharing group. This means that we need to create individual SDSNEXIT libraries for each subsystem. We used to have one SDSNEXIT which held ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Table Values functionality

Is it possible to add following functionality to DB2 zos 10, 11 and IDAA 4.1 and above. Apparently it is supported in DB2 LUW. SELECT S.Year, Q.Quarter, Q.ResultsFROM SalesAgg AS S, TABLE (VALUES(1, S.q1), (2, S.q2), (3, S.q3), (4, S.q4)) AS Q(Qua...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PARTITION BY clause should be available to create DPSI of Index on expression

IOE (Index on expression) can be DPSI, but when we specify PARTITION BY clause in the DDL to create partitioned IOE, it is failed by SQLCODE -628 in DB2 V11. We can create DPSI of IOE by the following DDL. CREATE INDEX TEMP.INDEX2 ON TEMP.TABLE2 (...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create Accounting Data Lite record type

The standard DB2 Accounting record has become increasingly bloated over the years. All of the information contained in each record is useful, but much of it is not necessary for basic Accounting purposes. Because the record is so big, and so expen...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Selective Suppression of DB2 maintained System History

There are times when it is not desirable to create a new DB2 maintained system history row if the values in the columns of the base table have actually not changed. DB2 already suppresses the actual update of a non-temproal table if none of the co...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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