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Db2 for z/OS

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DB2 should produce more accurate filter factors (to better optimize queries)

Today, when I have a query with an equals predicate and also an "IN LIST" predicate and both apply to the same table and when I have correctly collected multi-column frequency distribution stats for the two columns involved with these two predicat...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Temporal INSERT syntax for application period temporal tables

We are using application period temporal tables with success. Application period temporal tables and syntax makes it easy to distinguish between the data values and the time dimension of the data.When doing SELECT, UPDATE and DELETE there is a spe...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Db2 V12 Add Column HIGH_POSS_FUNCTION_LVL To SYSIBM.SYSLEVELUPDATES

Want an easy why to know the current HIGHEST POSSIBLE FUNCTION LEVEL and to track history of HIGHEST POSSIBLE FUNCTION LEVEL. Currently we are issuing the command, parsing the output, and storing it in a Db2 tablle.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Add wildcard support to all system profile tables filtering criteria categories

Using system profile tables to control workloads is a very useful feature and hence it is more and more used.During our tests, we found out that we have the need to use wildcards within the DSN_PROFILE_TABLE filtering categories of a PROFILEID. In...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

make SQL cost estimation more accurate

DB2 for z/OS provided cost estimation before execution for each SQL.We can use explain to check that. And DB2 governor (DB2 Resource Limit Facitliy) use the cost estimation for predictive governor. How ever the cpu cost estimation is not correct f...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Alter Index add column

When altering index adding columns ' the index status change to rebuild pendig ' need to put in in change pending and let appliction use this index until rebuild or reorg the index , and then rebind packeges
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

ALTER DEFINE NO - REORG to delete all dataset(s)

: I know that there is a change in place now with the newest version to delete unused datasets for a PBG tablespace with a REORG, I was wondering if there might be something in the future where we could ALTER a Tablespace/Index to DEFINE NO and th...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

UNION should automatically be rewritten to "UNION ALL" when it is logically equivalent

In the following query, the developer coded "UNION". Because it is part of a "WHERE EXISTS" subselect, replacing the UNION with "UNION ALL" will perform much better and deliver the same results: SELECT * FROM PDBR111.VCLI095_SELECT V01WHERE V01.AR...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve DB2 sliding scale algorithm (SECQTY -1)

The maximum secondary space allocation of 559 cylinders for objects of 64GB or greater is too little causing the number of extents hits the limit of 255 or if using Extent Constraint Removal it would generated many extents. For the cases where the...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Recover Statistics based on Statistic History Tables

In most cases an up-to-date RUNSTATS will result in better execution plans and SQL performance. But there are also cases, where new statistics result in worser execution plans and performance. For static SQL we have many possibilities to control t...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration