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Improvements in online DDL changes - DBD design

Our company uses DB2 zOS almost exclusively for dynamic SQL workloads. Our management expects that DB2 zOS also has high availability regarding DDL changes in this application szenario. If you intend to perform DDL changes in this environment duri...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 16 Planned for future release

DSNTEP2/DSNTEP4 program parameter to specify the output record length without the need to recompile the program

we are in the process of migrating IBM tools and utilities from a third party vendor to IBM software and we need a program to run SQL select statements in batch with an output record length greater than 133 characters. In the IBM manual for sample...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Create a PBR table with specified physical partition order

Sometimes it is required to create a copy of an existing table that will exactly match the existing table. And as physical and logical partitions in PBR can be out of order, that includes the existing order of physical partition numbers. CREATE TA...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Implicit Tablespaces for conversion of multi-table tablespaces to UTS PBG

When converting multi-table tablespaces to universal tablespaces with new command ALTER TABLESPACE MOVE TABLE you need to create a new tablespace for each table explicitely before you can use the command. It would be very nice if the ALTER TABLESP...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

It seems at the moment that redirected recovery from SystemLevelBackup is not possible. Could you make it happen!?

It may be handy to be able to do a redirected recover tablespace from SLB, if SLB is your only backup, and you want to keep the current status of the production tablespace. Doing a redirected recovery may help you to solve the problems with the "l...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enhance DSNTEP2 und DSNTEP4 to count lots of rows/pages correctly

DSNTEP2 and DSNTEP4 have 6 digits for the #rows and 4 digits for the #pages. If one has more output, it is confusing if you use these counters to position in the output. This has happened on our side. Of course, if one has understood this counter ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

DB2 Catalog and INDEX COMPRESSION statistics (PAGESAVE and BP_UNUSED)

If an index is compressed, it is documented in DB2 catalog table SYSIBM.SYSINDEXES column called ‘COMPRESS’ Tablespace compression is documented in SYSTABLESPACE and SYSTABLEPART. In both tables with column called ‘COMPRESS’ SYSTABLEPART also co...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 9 Future consideration

VERIFY scalar function

I do have a column with invalid data select * from table where verify(name,'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÅÆØ0123456789')>0 the 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÅÆØ0123456789' is the chars that is valid in the column that can be x number of chars the sel...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Ensure that several messages put into MQ via DB2MQ.MQSEND within one Db2 UOW are received in correct order at the other side of the queue

Db2 is called by CICS. CICS is coordinator of the global UOW. Within this UOW there are two calls of DB2MQ.MQSEND to put message 1 and message 2 into a MQ queue in a specific order. MQPOLICY used for this DB2MQ.MQSEND calls is defined with SYNCPOI...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Improving Insert Performance for LOBs

As mentioned in Case TS004024647 there are some situations where inserts in lob structures do not provide the expected performance. Instead they cause massive CPU consumption in the Coupling Facility for the spacemap search. The problem is excessi...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration