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Db2 for z/OS

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Add flag field to IFCID 402 to indicate when a reset has occurred.

In Db2 Version 13 and V12 (with APAR PH50729), Db2 resets IFCID 402 statistic counters immediately if the warning or exception threshold for the associated profiles is changed when you issue a START PROFILE command. It’s difficult to tell if the c...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add SET CURRENT QUERY ACCELERATION WAITFORDATA setting into Profile Table in Db2 for z/OS

When Waitfordata setting is required for HTAP queries in IDAA for dynamic SQLs, waitfordata should be defined either in zPARM or as a register setting in application before the SQL statement which requires application change. It would be better to...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Allow the DECLARE-part of a cursor in EXPLAIN

Over the years options you can use in a cursor were enhanced more and more, but you still can only explain the SELECT-clause of the cursor. But sometimes access path are considerably different, if you use a rowset cursor.
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance DB2 profile history tables for DataSharing subsystems - column STATUS

DB2 profile and attributes tables have related history tables, SYSIBM.DSN_PROFILE_HISTORY and SYSIBM.DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES_HISTORY. These history tables contain information regarding enabled profiles and attributes that were processed by a -START...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

IFI READS support for IFCID 105

IFCID 105 contains information needed to map DBID/OBID values to object names. This information is produced on the STATS interval and contains mapping for EVERY object currently open to DB2. On large systems, thousands of IFCID 105 records may be ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add new STATUS codes to SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE to reflect different states of the tablespace

For the person who wants to identify the tablespaces that are in advisory reorg-pending status to collectively identify those tables and include them collectively in a reorganization job.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Replace unique NPI by PI

We need to replace non-partitioned unique indexes by partitioned indexes. This will be even more important when we start converting PBGs to PBRs in vNext. Already today you can create a new unique index. The problem is getting rid of the old NPI. ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

When AHA-RFE is implemented -> the APAR and/or KC -> include reference to AHA-RFE nbr

When an AHA -RFE is implemented and the knowledge center (KC) is updated AND/OR the APAR is updated/created then please consider putting a reference in the documentation pointing back to the AHA-RFE number! There may be pros and cons to including ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Instrument workfile high-watermarks in ACCTG

Instrument IFCID 0003 and IFCID 0148 counter(s) to show the maximum amount of Workfile used by a thread (4K blocks total, or separate by tables/indexes, or separate by 4K/32K Workfiles -- implementation choice.) It is difficult to manage Workfile ...
almost 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration