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    Make Dynamic Plan Stability really stable

    We use dynamic sql now in nearly all of our applications. It is essential for our shop that the access paths for dynamic sql are as stable as possible. So we will use the new V12 feature "dynamic plan stability". If you look into the manuals and i...
    almost 6 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 18 Not under consideration

    REORG utility does not fix UNLOAD and RELOAD task relation

    In case of ALTER LIMITKEY the UNLOAD and RELOAD task fix relation could end up in the fact that REORG can use only one task for UNLOAD and hence one task for RELOAD. This impacts REORG utility performance. In our case one UNLOAD/RELOAD task versus...
    6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    DSNREXX-GET-DIAGNOSTICS-Support

    GGDB212004Please add Get diagnostics support in DSNREXX.
    almost 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Request for RUNSTATS SHRLEVEL REFERENCE with SAMPLE to update RTS TOTALROWS

    Recovery to PIT or to current, and non-standard recovery methods such as DSN1COPY or DF/SMS dataset DUMP/RESTORE from flashcopy backups can leave TOTALROWS set to 0, NULL or invalid values. Trying to run something like a REBUILD index relies on TO...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Add Two Factor Authentication support for Data Studio

    Our z/OS security infrastructure now requires two factor authentication for all z/OS IDs which have elevated privileges. These IDs are required to configure new connections or apply maintenance for bind activities in DS. Are there any plans to add...
    over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    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

    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

    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

    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 ++ ...
    3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

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