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Db2 for z/OS

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Db2 V12 - Installation CLIST - Panel DSNTIPG1 - IC DATA SET UNIT NAME - format of DSNTIJIC

For Db2 V12, going through the installation CLIST to migrate, panel DSNTIPG1 MIGRATE DB2 - INSTALLATION PREFERENCES PANEL 2 3 IC DATA SET UNIT NAME With Db2 V12, IC DATA SET UNIT NAME determines the format of the Db2 catalog and directory image ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Recently someone accidently freed all packages with FREE PACKAGE(*) which took a week to recover all packages.

It took the entire DB2 systems and application staff a week to discover and bind all missing packages. Many outages were incurred during this time.
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow system administrators to specify bufferpool sizes in "M" or "G", rather than pages.

With big memory and bufferpools measured in gigabytes, sizing pools by number of pages becomes tedious and error-prone. A 1GB pool requires one to specify -ALT BPOOL(BPx) VPSIZE(262144). A 5GB pool would be VPSIZE(1310720). Most users use "round" ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Possibilty for setting ASUTIME LIMIT

If you have a SQL in the editor or in a file you can't set the ASUTIME LIMIT. This is only possible for a stored procedure at the moment. It would be graet to be able set this when a rare SQL needs more time.
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

ADD SMF89 to install panels for DB2

while installing db2 or upgrading zparms I need to go in an manually change the zparm from SMF89=NO to YES everytime I ran the installation parm. If another systems programmer doesnt know this there is the risk that they copy over SMF89=YES and no...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DB2 Dynamically add active log dataset

We had few occurrences in our DB2 subsystems, active log datasets reached out of space in datasets with messages DSNJ110E, DSNJ111E. This is primarily due to workload driven. Within 5 to 10mins active logs are getting filled quickly and DB2 is sta...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Dynamically add active log with a critical message displayed in hot terminal

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about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

MQSEND function support for MQ group ID

We would like to have MQ group ID and message sequence numbering supported in Db2 MQSEND function. This would help to achive desired message ordering in situations of more complex unit of works. We had a case where we wanted to do more MQSEND ca...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create partitioned LOBs to be used with PBR AND PBG tables

If you create a PBR with a lob column you must create a uniquely named LOB table in support of each PBR partition. Consider table with 550 parts. Creation of each LOB TS/Table by part is time consuming and error prone. Verification that all parts...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Invalid maximum timestamp value availble in DB2

Currently there is documented maximum timestamp value available in DB2 as '9999-12-31-24.00.00.000000'. However, using this value can lead to various problems which are recognized by DB2 development already as during introduction of temporal table...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration