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    z/OSMF workflow artifacts for Db2 UPDATE and ACTIVATE process

    IBM z/OSMF workflows are being improved to be used for Db2 installation and migration. It would be nice if we have also the artifacts for the other CLIST processes: UPDATE and ACTIVATE. The UPDATE process is what we use the most.
    almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Enhance the support of MFA in DB2

    Due to regulatory requirements many customers are being required to implement MFA on the mainframe. Specially the requirements for NYDFS which sets cybersecurity standards for financial services firms in New York. DB2 seems to have some limitation...
    7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Expand the scope of TRANSFER OWNERSHIP DDL

    The TRANSFER OWNERSHIP DDL should also be applied to stored procedures, triggers, functions, constraints, global variables, sequences, etc.
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Future consideration

    Reduce the number of locks propagated to CF for DGTT processing

    DGTT are limited to the local DB2 and the local thread, as the local thread owns this DGTT and the local Db2 owns the required WORKDB resources to materialize a DGTT. Therefore it makes no sense to propagate any lock related to a DGTT to the CF. F...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Db2 Unload from a Cursor

    Enhance the Db2 UNLOAD utility to perform an unload from a declared cursor
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Improve performance of EXPLAIN

    With early versions of DB2 the performance of EXPLAIN was not relevant. Nowadays, where DBAs do thousands of EXPLAINs, the performance and turnaround is getting critical. I think there is room for better performance and throughput of mass EXPLAINs...
    over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

    Provide SCOPE(GROUP) option for STOP/START PROFILE

    Provide for a SCOPE(GROUP) option for START/STOP PROFILE commands similar to START/STOP PROCEDURE.
    over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Enhance DSNT375I deadlock message to include DRP global variable use

    Following the introduction of the CURRENT LOCK TIMEOUT (CLT) special register and DEADLOCK_RESOLUTION_PRIORITY (DRP) global variable with EPIC 8876, the DSNT376I timeout message has been enhanced to show the timeout values used for both requester ...
    almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

    Efficient READA

    I was monitoring a task in my product. This task executes a call to the READA service to obtain the current READA buffer when posted by DB2. I was monitoring to determine why the CPU usage by that task was high. My analysis determined that 99% of ...
    7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    DB2: Enhancing DB2 decision making during starting up in DEFER ALL mode

    We would like to enhance the DB2 product when starting a database with the "defer all" zparm parameter. It is unfortunate that there is a limit of 2500 in place, and it is also unfortunate that the trusted context is not automatically built, even ...
    over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

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