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Db2 for z/OS

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alter tablespace to convert PBG to PBR online

Changing a PBG-tablespace to a PBR one means dropping and recreating the object, involving a number of related tasks such as UNLOAD, LOAD, CHECK asf.
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enhance SPT01: max partition to more than 1, and Sysadm can amend the PART Size from 64gb to 32gb .

The Tablespace is in VSAM-E format with 252 Extends in already 32Gb size. It cannot create the 2nd Partition .Because the max partition of SPT01 is 1 and the partition size is 64gb. When application sharing the testing environment of UT, ST, SIT ,...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Allow for 16 IFI trace outputs to run concurrently

When a program starts a trace that is to go to destination OPX, there are currently only 8 of these that can be run at a time. This can be somewhat constraining (and has at times caused us some issues). Could this limit be bumped to 16 with the de...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

DB2 V10 Object rename improvement

Slow object renames in DB2 V10. Need to add index to the SYSTABAUTH table. Changed function from V9 to V10 - Removed links Info from PMR 19771: These 'internal queries' don't go through normal access path selection. They have a 'hard coded' access...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Maintain catalog column UNCOMPRESSED_DATASIZE

Today, the DB2 catalog column UNCOMPRESSED_DATASIZE is unmaintained. Having this column maintained gives the REORG utility the ability to calculate a more accurate average row length when decompressing the rows, especially in combination with VARC...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Owner Type option when Binding with a Role

We have attempted to convert our DBA's to utilize Role based security instead of granting direct access to user-specific ID's in order to comply with certain audit standards. The one limitation keeping us from utilizing role based admin security i...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Ability to set number of locks before a SQL gets a 00C90096

DB2 currently allows the following LOCKMAX settings.LOCKMAX - 0, , SYSTEM.0 - Lock escalation is disable. or SYSTEM - DB2 escalates the lock after or NUMLKUS is reached.When LOCKMAX is set to 0, an application receives 00C90096 after NUMLKUS is re...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

FR556: More granular IRLMRWT

By default, SAP customers run with fairly high values for IRLMRWT like 5 or 10 minutes because SAP applications usually prefer waiting longer rather than having timeouts too early. In general, this works well. However, there are cases in which cer...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Allow capability to ALTER the UPDATES column of SYSCOLUMNS

DB2 10 for z/OS eliminates the PARTKEYU system parameter and always behaves as if PARTKEYU was set to YES. However, tables created in DB2 for z/OS Version 5 and earlier can not take advantage of this capability unless the tables are dropped and re...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

new BLKSIZE parm for TEMPLATE utility

For the TEMPLATE utility, I would like the ability to specify BLKSIZE.
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered