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    Enhance messages of CDDS start / stop in data sharing to document which member stopped / started CDDS

    When CDDS is stopped / started (e.g. STOP CDDS) in a member of a data sharing group this member documents messages DSNJ375I and DSN9022I in MSTR. In the MSTR of the other members of the group only DSNJ375I is logged. For monitoring / problem manag...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Enhance ALTER of STOGROUP

    Would like additional flexibility to change storage options without taking outages. First situation, we had a special storage group defined with a specific STORCLAS that was used to isolate a specific subset of data. That isolation is no longer ne...
    over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Extend applicability of the existing filtering capabilities of field WQALGBPN of WQAL data structure to be applicable to all Buffer Pool and Group Buffer Pool related IFCID 002, 202, 230, 254

    Hello, I think it would help all Db2 performance monitoring tools and Db2 workload observability infrastructure using IFI to achieve better data filtering capabilities if we extend applicability of the existing filtering capabilities of field WQAL...
    3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    My idea relates to a multiple IFCID 365 QLST data structure repeate group for an individual client TCP/IP address and multiple QLSTPRID, client protocol/product ID.

    Hello, As Db2 data processing paradigm is changing overtime, it focuses more nowadays towards DDF bound workload. According to this changing data processing context, we need more and more robust Db2 instrumentation and observability infrastructure...
    3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    DB2 MQ Listener and MQ pooling

    Hello, We are implementing the DB2 MQ listener and making some tuning we have seen in the logs that it seems to make pooling to get messages : 2026-05-11::13:07:58 >> Thread:516935680 Entered Listener::waitForMessage 2026-05-11::13:08:06 ++ ...
    4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    "smooth" way to delete an index by mark the index deprecated before drop

    We would like to have an option to drop an index in a "smooth" way. package invalidation Idea is, that an index could be marked as "deprecated". This should have the effect, that this index is no longer chosen during BIND/REBIND for use in new c...
    10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    new accounting trace field to indicate if distributed connection was secure or not

    We have recently enabled the SECPORT in all our Db2 subsystem. And now it is possible for a distributed client to use the SECPORT (instead of TCPPORT) and establish a secure SSL/TLS connection to the Db2. Great. Ideally, I would like to shut down ...
    over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

    New Authorization for SELECT all tables (DataSelect)

    We use the DataAccess Auth to let Select. Insert, Update & Delete on all tables. But we'll appreciate also a new Auth for letting only Select on all tables. That's why we thought about the name DataSelect.
    over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Support for CREATE INDEX DEFER YES DEFINE NO would be very usefull for Spaces with a 'high' number of partitions to avoid timeouts on SYSTSTAB.

    When using "CREATE INDEX DEFER YES DEFINE NO", "DEFINE NO" is ignored with SQLCODE 20122 and the VSAM Clusters are created anyway. Doing this for a partitioned index on a partitioned table with lots of partitions (400+) the runtime of CREATE INDEX...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    DB2 message showing a trace was started

    Today we have situations where people authorized to start DB2 traces sometimes issue START TRACE commands with little qualifications with lead to traces being collected for lots of DB2 threads which ends having impact on general performance of the...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

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