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Db2 for z/OS

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DB2 enhancement for REUSASID=YES

Please add functionality for REUSASID=YES to DB2 product. REUSASID=YES is not currently supported by DB2 z/OS. Since DB2 does not support REUSASID=YES, the ASID is not reusable until IPL.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Message in *MSTR after 'STOP DB2 MODE(FORCE)' - command

Message in *MSTR after 'STOP DB2 MODE(FORCE)' It would be very helpful for debugging and analysis if you would document an STOP DB2 MODE(FORCE) in the *mstr -joblog. In addition from my point of view the message 'DSN9022I <DBR2 DSNYASCP 'STO ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Reset an invalidated statement level optimization hint

If a statement level optimization hint was invalidated for whatever reason one has to repeat the whole process to get the same hint again.
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Log volume SYSUTILX

We have very large LOB objects (e.g. nnTBs). Due to the change (delete/insert/update) pattern of our applications, we have to use incremental image copies (IIC) very often to ensure recoverability for these objects. IIC for LOB objects generate lo...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

VIRTUAL_INDEX_USED column in plan table

MR0218096957 GGDB208030Mark all rows of a statement in the plan_table with an Y in a new column VIRTUAL_INDEX_USED when a dependency to a virtual index exists.
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Open Cursor with Hold

MR021809690 GGDB208033Add a new thread based accounting-class-2- and a package based accounting-class-7 counter ????????????????????????OPEN CURSOR WITH HOLD???????????????????????? which will be incremented whenever a OPEN statement with option H...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Externalize high water marker for EDM pool in Db2 trace on Db2 V12

This stat is useful and required to tune EDM pool appropriately. This would be useful for DB2 systems programmer and DB2 Performance Teams. We had a case opened and the decision is to externalize this feature only with v13. It would be great to ha...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

externalize stop command failure

objects remain in STOPP when stop fails with no indication that it failed. a manual start followed by a manual stop is required to cause the object to proceed to a stop state. it's unfortunate, that issuing a start is required since that will allo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Reduce locking on XML-auxiliary tables

Locking on XML auxiliary tables can be very CPU cost intensive and can lead to problems with the threshold LOCKS PER USER.Tune DB2s locking algorithms so that locking on XML-auxiliary tableswill be reduced.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration