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Db2 for z/OS

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Alters to objects that require reorg to material should be put into advisory reorg, such as PCTFREE

If an alter is done to a TS to PCTFREE and a REORG is not run, then the catalog is updated but the change is not materialized. This results in the DBA thinking it was done, but it really wasn;t.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhance DB2 System Profile’s history table

Although DB2 profile history tables are available, they cannot currently provide a complete history of enabled and disabled profiles. Actually, a DB2 profile is registered in the history tables only for START PROFILE commands, and only if the prof...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Externalize DDF Alias level statistics into SMF

Currently we do have SMF data for DB2 system level distributed workload but do not have DDF Alias level statistics with in SMF, only available adhoc option is to issue DIS DDF <alias> DETAIL to look at DDF alias level active dbats and connec...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SQLJ Add support for use of Java Array in IN predicate

We would like to see support of Java type ARRAY for IN-LISTs. The use case would look like: SqljCtx sqljCtx = getSqljCtx(); Array fkpzOfflKtoIdsArray = sqljCtx.getConnection().createArrayOf("TIMESTAMP", fkpzOfflKtoIds); FremdkontoOfflineIterator i...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future 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...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Trusted Contexts do not allow ADDRESS wildcarding

To request that DB2 Trusted Context allow wildcarding of TCPID addresses in the ADDRESS attribute.
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Meter "dirty" pages written to DB2 table spaces (disk) from CF or local buffer pools

DB2 uses 300 tasks (DB2 writers - it could be more now with later DB2 releases) to write modified (aka, "dirty") pages to the DB2 table spaces (either permanent tables or DB2 work files). From a DB2 perspective this is "efficient" but from a resou...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Add timestamp to all -DISPLAY command outputs

More and more companies are using multiple DISPLAY commands to track for problems or usage statistics etc. The problem is that the TIMESTAMP when the command was issued is not in the output (apart from DISPLAY BLOCKERS) It would be really good to ...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SHUTDOWN DB2 WHEN RACF EXIT FAILURE

After RACF EXIT is abending and failing , DB2 is changing back to Native DB2 Auth checking , If you migrated to RACF exit this can lead to unwanted behavior , we would want a ZPARM or OPTION to make DB2 shutdown if the RACF EXIT is not wokring
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Use profile tables for local applications

We use profile tables successfully for different scenarios. In addition to remote applications, our DB2 IT infrastructure also includes local applications for which we also have profile table usage scenarios. For example, we set the explain mode f...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration