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Db2 for z/OS

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Utility Flashcopy Templates verification in UTILINIT phase.

Running a reorg tablespace with a FlashCopy image copy instead of a classic image copy can lead to a successful reorg but a COPY Pending status if the FCCOPYDDN parm is pointing to a missing SYSTEMPL template although the System Action for the DSN...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Display V12 function level instead of simply saying (New Function Activated)

When a Database Connection has been made, Data Studio displays the DB2 version of the data server and the fact if it is in New Function Mode or not. This type of information is sufficient for DB2 for z/OS V11 or earlier which really only had m...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Change IRLM hashing algorithm to offer a better and more efficient distribution of P-locks across LTEs

As per PMR 76883,999,866/TS002531202, when increasing DSMAX and PCLOSET/N parms to reduce TCB DBM1 CPU time owing to less open/close operations, we noticed a significant increase in IRLM CPU time, strongly correlated with higher number of currentl...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Would like means of collecting Maxdbat information by AUTHID

We are in the process of providing max thread limits via the Db2 Profile tables AUTHID entries for our applications. We would like to use a AUTHID=* entry to provide a default thread limit and use AUTHID=xxx values for applications which may need ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Db2 trace data should provide metrics related to usage of SysplexWLB (Workload Balancing) option

On our approach to change all remote connections to Db2 for z/OS into using SysplexWLB (workload balancing) option, we are missing a way to measure our progress here. (i. e. Java applications with property setting enableSysplexWLB=true) We would ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Support ARCHIVE tables by V7 accelerator

Today, temporal tables are supported by v7 accelerator. Archive tables that was released later in DB2 v11 are not supported. We are asking for support ARCHIVE tables also in the accelerator.
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Delivered

Testing coverage improvement request for DB2 on z/OS

The background of this request is the following PMR/APARs for DB2 on z/OS: PMR-72914, APAR-PI94071 PMR-72966, APAR-PI96017 PMR-73053, APAR-PI96110The customer encountered two-month delay of their integration testing due to the series of problems i...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

DB2 provided z/OSMF templates to support Db2 subsystem in DSG

Currently template z/OSMF workflows to provision Db2 for z/OS subsystem support only stand-alone subsystems. We would like to have a template to provision DB2 subsystems in a DSG.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

zOS DB2 support for EDITPROC and FIELDPROC for I306 log records.

DB2 for zOS does not support EDITPROC and FIELDPROC automatically like it supports compression and other conversions for I306 records. We have customers who ask for this and we can't support this feature but apparently others can through USERMODs ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Remove IBM internal use only to LIMITKEY field in catalog table SYSIBM.SYSTABLEPART because the field is useful in ROTATE

LIMITKEY field in catalog table SYSIBM.SYSTABLEPART is used by customer application to calculate the new limitkey for the last partition when implemented the ROTATE, for such reason we ask to consider LIMITKEY field a stable field, normally used b...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered