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DIS LOCATION - Show entries for multiple drivers versions from a single server

DIS LOCATION caches the PRDID for the first connection from a remote server. Additional traffic from the same server using different drivers is not dynamically displayed. For example if a test connect uses the JCC driver and all additional traffic...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Deposit some information about latch status in HVCOMMON to avoid Db2 abend

Db2 abended due to EOM in one of its threads (in this case an online REORG). The request is that some more information about thread status is saved in common storage (e.g. HVCOMMON) to help SSSC to cleanup the job and to avoid that it must take do...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

temporary catalog table

Creating a temporary catalog table could be useful in various situations to restore certain numbers of rows to their original state. Using the example of SYSSEQUENCES, it could be possible to perform a row-based recovery in the event of an error w...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Z/OS Sync Logical and Physical Parts after full Reorg

ADD PART was used to insert a new physical partition in the middle of a tablespace. Now the Logical and Physical partitions are mismatch. If a Full Reorg on the full tablespace is performed, the utility can include an option to resync the logical ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

REOPT(ALWAYS) on statement level additional to package level

MR0123086821 GGDB208004 Make it possible to state REOPT(ALWAYS) additionally to the bind option as a clause at the statement level.
almost 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Dynamic Alter of DSSIZE to a larger value when an out of space condition is encountered for UTS PBR RPN tablespace partition.

When a DBA is alerted to a space full condition on a UTS partitioned by range tablespace that has relative page numbering then one f the DBA action is to Alter the DSSIZE of the particular partition to a higher value. This is an online and immedia...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Materialize a reorg pending change through part-level reorgs

At the moment an AREOR exception state can only be solved by reorganizing the whole (partitioned) tablespace in one go. We want to do the materialization in several sequential steps on a part-level base.
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Math function changes in Db2 12

POWER Built-in function got rewritten and so I am hoping to get a list of all changed built-in functions in Db2 12 so that I can do better testing before going into production.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

High number of LOCK reqeusts against one LOCK1 structure need relief

We have a very high volume of lock requests against LOCK1 CF structure. This number increases month by month. Of course, the LOCK1 structure does not scale infinitely, therefore we need a relief here.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

SORTDATA NO and AREOR

We need to change all limitkeys of one of our very large TS (several TBs). This implies that afterwards a REORG must run over the complete TS. Currently Db2 utilities do not fully support EAV volumes (our open requirement Support SORTWK with EAV [...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review