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Db2 for z/OS

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Provide SQL access to product statistics API's

Provide a way to bring statistics from various products API's into an SQL context. Sample has been shown to selected zBLC customers during the Dublin face-2-face. Requirement has been discussed with Jeff Josten / Chris Crone. Offer has been made t...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Modify DSNJU004 to print all information stored in a Db2 BSDS

Not everything that resides in a BSDS can be printed via this utility. However several items are stored in the BSDS that we need to go to several other places to get the information
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Begin / End COMMIT instrumentation for DRDA, CICS/IMS

Complex CICS/IMS or DRDA transactions (involving multiple programs with an implicit Commit at the end) are incorrectly presented on the Omegamon Accounting Report/Trace. By design the costs of the tough SYNC (COMMIT) operation are added to the las...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

One-Fecht Index Scan for SELECT min(), max()

At the moment only a single SELECT min(a) or a SELECT max(a) uses a suitable index I(a, ...). When selecting both, min() and max(), a tablespace scan is used to determine the minimum and maximum value. With large tables this behaviour is very expe...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Message for START DATABASE

Message for LOG MSTR of the command START DATABASE and STOP DATABASE.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

RUNSTATS with exception consideration

All DB2 customers use RUNSTATS. The RUNSTATS results are used by the DB2 optimizer to determine optimal access plans. In 99.999 percent of all cases this is not a problem. However, there are some objects (tablespaces / indices) for which a RUNSTAT...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Write Failed Lock Escalation Attempts to Master

Currently, when Lock Escalation succeeds, a message is written to the Master Log with details. However, when a Lock Escalation attempt fails (due to a timeout or deadlock), nothing is written. This sort of timeout or deadlock can be difficult to d...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Command confirmation in joblog of DB2MSTR.

DB2 has many commands which display or alter the status of something. There are a lot of distinct environments from which the commands can be executed (z/OS console, DSN session, TSO DSN command processor, IMS or CICS terminal, special STPs, IFI-i...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

INTERPRET Function for Packed-decimal Data

We have some old tables with a CHAR column where we store a record formatted by a Cobol Program. It contains a mix of display data and packed-decimal data. To use that data we have to read it in a Cobol program and interpret it using a Cobol copyb...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance command -DISPLAY PROFILE with keyword DETAIL

The -DISPLAY PROFILE command allows to determine if profiling is active or inactive on a specific DB2 member. The command returns output similar to: -display profile DSNT753I +DB2A DSNT1DSP DISPLAY PROFILE REPORT FOLLOWS: STATUS = ON TIMESTAMP = ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration