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    Lock escalation on HISTORY STATISTICS catalog tables for DROP statement

    add the ability for lock escalation on the catalog tables which contains the HISTORICAL STATISTISCs data (SYSIBM.SYS...HIST)
    over 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Allow for LISTDEF processing when using CHECK Utility

    Details: 1) Manual does not mention use of "LIST" on the "CHECK DATA" page. Example proposed syntax: LISTDEF CHKLIST INCLUDE TABLESPACE DB123.* CHECK LIST CHKLIST SCOPE ALL EXCEPTIONS 0 SORTDEVT WORK
    almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Drop indexes with uniquerule P and C

    When a tablespace is converted from PBG to PBR or even PBR-PBG-PBR all indexes become non-partitioned. There will not be a solution to convert non-partitioned indexes to partitioned. Instead IBM point to DB24ZOS-I-553 to create new unique indexes ...
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    New DB2z "LOCKMAXCANCEL" tablespace characteristic - cancel thread when N locks have been reached

    Suggest a new parameter for the TABLESPACE definition (perhaps named "LOCKMAXCANCEL"). LOCKMAXCANCEL This would allow you to specific a number that represent the maximum number of locks that can be acquired for the tablespace at which point the th...
    over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Implement the same logic for TERMINATE Connection as for CREATE Connection (PH67087)

    We want to tune our MAXDBAT values based on workload related DBAT processing. But currently the counters like QDSTHWAT are overloaded by the TERMINATE connection processing. For CREATE Connection ther eis already an APAR which solves this problem ...
    6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Change Db2 Load And Db2 Reorg To Selectively Ignore KEEPDICTIONARY

    Change Db2 Load and Db2 Reorg to ignore KEEPDICTIONARY if the tablespace part is currently compressed and* SYSTABLEPART.COMPRESS IN ('F','H') & SYSTABLEPART.COMPRESS <> SYSTABLEPART.COMPRESS_USED OR * SYSTABLEPART.COMPRESS = 'Y' & zP...
    12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Return information about a failed Lock-Escalation to the application

    When a Lock-Escalation occurs it is documented by message DSNI031I (Lock Escalation has occurred) in the Db2-Master-Adressspace. But when a Lock-Escalation fails there is no documentation for this, instead it comes to a Timeout or Deadlock from a ...
    almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Parrallel offload (Archive logs)

    DB2 offload logs in sequential mode. We offload logs directly to virtual tapes and sometimes when have problem with tapes DB2 holds many full active logs. It'll be great if DB2 can offload for example ten full active logs in parallel.
    about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Allow for "OPTIMIZE FOR n ROWS" to be added to DELETE, UPDATE Statements

    OPTIMIZE FOR 1 ROW can be added to SELECT SQL. One reason may be to influence the optimizer to chose one index over another, or to not perform a SORT with List Prefetch Adding OPTIMIZE FOR 1 ROW to a DELETE statement results in an error: EXPLAIN A...
    over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Update GUI to allow scripting-out of GUI actions

    In our organization we are not allowed to do manual changes in Production using GUI, all changes have to be scripted, added to the version-management repository, tested in pre-Prod, and executed as a script, this way they are repeatable, auditable...
    almost 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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