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Db2 for z/OS

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IFCID 172/196 (Deadlock/Timeout) – Add STCK for Held Locks

At IFCID 172/196 (Deadlock/Timestamp) please add a STCK for the held lock (blocker) when the lock was granted. In case of a lockout with this STCK the sequence of the locks, and so the sequence of the blocker-SQLs, can be reconstructed ‘post mor...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improved granularity for WITH clause

GGDB210017 Implement WITH clause syntax as a sub-clause for JOIN specification
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reorg - SORTDATA NO - write to shadow instead of SYSREC and then the shadow

Reorg - SORTDATA NO - write to shadow instead of SYSREC and then the shadow
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add Bufferpool ID # to SMF 100/2 DNSDQDBP

Hello z/OS DB2, I am processing the SMF 100 subtype 1 and subtype 2 records and match upthe buffer pool data. In the SMF 100/1 DSNDQBST section, the buffer pools are identified by a buffer pool ID number. On the SMF 100/2 records, DNSDQDBP section...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Planned for future release

Reduce message flooding on system console using Db2 System Profile Monitoring for security profiles when detecting non-secure connections and WARNING_DIAGLEVEL3

This Aha idea is being opened on behalf of Commerzbank (Ute Kleyensteuber). Security profiles are used with System Profile Monitoring filter LOCATION=*, ATTR1=WARNING_ DIAGLEVEL3, ATTR3=1 (TLS required) to discover all incoming non-secure connecti...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Please develop a tool to real time monitor BB1RMID

Dear DB2 for Z developers, Our critical banking client got to know there is a severe storage leak issue reported on the DB2 V12. It's addressed on the APAR PH45580 already. Meanwhile, however, the client still wants us to develop a tool which coul...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Use Limitkeys as histogram-stats, if appropriate

Recently we had a Performance Problem where I was requested to collect histogram-stats for a column, which matches the partitioning column. Because this was a big table, running this runstats took about 9 hours to complete. If limitkeys could serv...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

User interface to provide correlation between Db2 packages and load module

Pain Point: Housekeeping of Db2 packages (deletion of old, no longer needed application packages) is done subsequently to the houskeeping of the corresponding load modules on the loadmod. Today we use the contoken to correlate the load module with...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Create a new partition if a LOB-tablespace gets a new partition in a UTS PBG

Hi Sometime the base-table is very small whereas the corresponding lob-tablespace can get bigger and bigger. So the base tablespace remains at one partition whereas the log tablespace can run against the limit of 255 datasets
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Partial PBG REORG for added Partitions due to previous PART LEVEL REORGs

When I run a PART LEVEL REORG of a PBG tablespace and the current data doesn't fit into its original partition DB2 adds a new partition at the end and uses it for the "overflow" data. Which is fine, btw.... If i do this for multiple partitions, se...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists