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Recording full utility statements in Utility History tables (LOB support)

Utility History tables introduced in Db2 13 currently lack the full text of executed statements, which increases the complexity of troubleshooting and auditing processes. It is requested that the product be enhanced to record the entire utility st...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

LOAD could end with RC=08 when no columns are detailed and lose data after VARCHARs

When a table has a column with varying length (VARCHAR, VARBINARY) and other columns after it, LOAD needs the column description in SYSIN to be loaded correctly, and ends with RC=00 (or RC=04 if remains CopyPend state). But if you forget to explic...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enable discard reorganizations on catalog history tables.

Enabling historization for certain catalog tables can result in very large tables that can be difficult to purge, particularly if they are in LOCKSIZE ROW and without LOCK ESCALATION, as is the case, for example, with the SYSIBM.SYSTABSPACESTATS_H...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration
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Resolve a restriction that CACHE DYN STABILITY function can not use with CONCENTRATE WITH LITERALS option.

Customer environment Db2 V12 <- DRDA -> Db2connect/JDBC(IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ type 2) Server side.(JDBC Type2 is used) Windows server: - WebSphere BASE 9.0.0 (Windows2016) - Db2client / IBM Data Server Runtime Client V11.1...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

SYMREST add disable/enable Symphony application feature

Users want to manage Symphony applications and workload via SYMREST service which cannot bounce an application per ticket TS022907381 . Bounce (disable/enable) application is a very basic operation in application management.
17 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Complete PROFILE support for SQL tuning ZPARMS

While modelling a production system it was noticed that the PROFILE support is not 100% up to date and compatible with the actual ZPARMs that the Db2 Optimizer uses. I opened a case TS019778440 and they said "Yes, it is missing, please open an AHA...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

ARCRETN - Managing by DFSMS - SMS Management Class

In a situation related to replication delay, it was necessary to keep the Db2 archive log longer than its current retention period. The subsystem parameter ARCRETN was set as 17 days as in Management Class. The planning was to alter the retention ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance CATMAINT output to show what has been done.

Please enhance the CATMAINT output to actually show what has been done. Currently when we execute CATMAINT to change the catalog level, the following output is produced: DSNU000I 083 15:07:58.39 DSNUGUTC - OUTPUT START FOR UTILITY, UTILID = RELODC...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Change Load Backout YES delete log process

During execution of LOAD RESUME YES BACKOUT YES SHRLEVEL NONE LOG NO DISCARDS 1, if 1 duplicate row is funded, all rows loaded will be backed out, regardless if there was just 1 duplicate. DB2 call Data Manager back out all the other rows writing ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Reorg index should update Real Time Statistics table SYSINDEXSPACESTATS

In case opened to IBM support, I found out that RTS table SYSINDEXSPACESTATS is not updated after reorg index. We have automated reorg of tablespaces and indexes through IBM DB2 Automation Tool using conditions for reorganization from RTS tables S...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review