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Db2 for z/OS

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DB2 - ALTER TABLE ROTATE

Auslöser :PMR 28789The deadlock occurs between the ALTER TABLE ROTATE FIRST TO LAST, which invalidates pkg dependent on the table and triggers an auto rebind ( Thealter table process obtained a row lock on SYSTSTAB and waiting for row lock on SYS...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

AREO Status via select

Some ddl Changes are in table SYSPENDINGDDL Some ddl Changes are not there: for example alter table add column can only be see via -dis db() sp() adv It would be better to have the same bahavior for all ddl changes with AREO* Status.Maybe it could...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

I/O required for RI check against the parent table when inserts done on the child table.

We have noticed that there is a high number of get pages on the parents indexes when doing an INSERT of a child row. Here are the details of our situation: The parent table has a partitioned primary key index with 132 partitions. The...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add an option to DB2 for z/OS utility REPAIR

The Repair-Utility has almost all features to fit a pageset, copied from one DB2 sub system („Source“) into another („Target“):· REPAIR LEVELID to prohibit downlevel detection· REPAIR CATALOG to alter the DB2 catalog to accept some pages...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Replacing data in Archive Enabled Tables using LOAD

In most tables data can be replaced using LOAD RESUME NO REPLACE. In Archive Enabled Tables it cannot. We want to use LOAD REPLACE to replace the existing data instead of having to delete the current data and then load with RESUME YES. The old dat...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Implement a TRY_CAST specification or equivalent

Implement a TRY_CAST specification which is identical in syntax and semantics to a CAST specification, with the exception that it would return NULL and raise only an SQL warning, not an error, if the target data type is numeric, and the source typ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide a threshold for the number of incidents caused by a single holder for message DSNT376I.

Availability and stable systems are very important to us (as they are for most users of DB2 for Z). Recently, I implemented a process that automatically terminated any process that shows up as the holder for a specific number (threshold) of DSNT37...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Set object status to prohibit data access

Before we drop a Db2 table we need to make sure that noone use the object in any way. We solve this now by stopping the tablespace and keeping it stopped for about six months. This means that noone can access the data and noone can run a utility a...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add SYSDISC DSNTIAUL format to REORG utility

Sometimes there's a need to repopulate DB2 tables concatenating outputs from REORG SYSDISC and DSNTIAUL in a single LOAD SYSREC file. So the idea is to have a parameter like REORG ... SYSDISC FORMAT INTERNAL|DSNTIAUL. Basically the difference betw...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Have new authority for REFRESH of MQT that does not require high privilege levels

We historically have an application batch userid that has DBADM authority. We are limiting all access to this ID to the minimally required authority it requires such as load, imagecopy and runstats at the DB level. When we started converting our t...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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