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Db2 for z/OS

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Allow a Db2 z/OS Server to request clients set other JDBC Data Server Driver parameters, such as minTransportObjects or maxTransportObjects

In FL502 of Db2 13, IBM offers MODIFY DDF with the "RQSTWLB" option which allows the Db2 server to tell clients to enable Sysplex Workload Balancing (enableSysplexWLB=true) as long as the client doesn't explicitly set WLB to "false". It would be b...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Db2: Recovery of Mainframe Db2 databases without applying changes.

When the DB2 is performing a recover it uses log and copy files, it may be some sitations where the log contains changes that we dont want to restore. For exemple we may have inserts made by an authorized program and also updates performed by an u...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to stop AOT and other db2 tables on IDAA

When we STOP or start for UT ,spaces of tables that are loaded to IDAA or spaces that relate to AOT's, these spaces are still available for the IDAA. We can SELECT data from the IDAA for these tables and for AOT's' we can also update them. We need...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

static SQL with DGTT and REOPT(ALWAYS) should be traced by IFCID 401

We realized that not all static SQLs are captured by DB2 to be put into IFI buffers (IFCID 401) I'm referring to static SQL related to packages bound with REOPT(ALWAYS) and DGTTs statements. For REOPT(ALWAYS) packages, only statements not affec...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Online Constraint name renaming capability

MR0803067232 DBDB2D/S05008 Expand the ALTER-TABLE–Statement with an RENAME-Clause or add a RENAME-CONSTRAINT-Statement which renames the constraint name online.
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

LOAD Replace improvement for RI tables

We had a Db2 DDL change where a new table "b" was created with a RI constraint to a parent table "a" which was also modified (DROP/CREATE). Table "a" had several rows which were unloaded before the change and loaded back after the DDL changes (LOA...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Db2 FTB analytics function Db2 V12

Started last weeks activating FTB in development systems by using ZPARM DSN6SPRM.INDEX_MEMORY_CONTROL. Tried to get information using -DISPLAY STATS(INDEXMEMORYUSAGE) LIMIT(*) -DISPLAY STATS(INDEXTRAVERSECOUNT). i thought i will get deeper to it b...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Runstats use profile

Runstats should be able to deal always with the generated profile for the optimizer.Or, DB2 should generate only such profiles that can be successfully executed.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Index support for "expression op expression"

In our environment, we have many queries with predicate: "expression op expression". As they don't use indexes they're performing a table scan. We would like DB2 to be able to use indexes to resolve this type of predicate. Examples: SELECT [id], [...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Db2 z/OS real storage management (Case TS006310627)

After the observation of a significantly increase of the CPU consumption in our Db2-MSTR regions, we opened case TS006310627 at IBM since the reason was not evident. The result of the analysis with IBM showed up that probably APAR PH31684 caused t...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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