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Db2 for z/OS

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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.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Index on RTS versioned History tables

In our environment, we retain the RTS history data for 1 year. Tables are going to grow large due to the busy environment we have.. We would need secondary indexes on these tables. Right now there is none. Since its a years data to analyze the rat...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 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], [...
over 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...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 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 ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Materialized Query tables in DB2 z/OS with refresh immediate option

MQT's - Materialized Query tables - are a well known feature in all advanced relational database systems. The DB2 family has this feature since more than 10 years. If you look at this functionality in DB2 LUW and DB2 z/OS the MQT functionality loo...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 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...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Allow RESUME NO with LOAD SHRLEVEL CHANGE

Allow RESUME NO with LOAD SHRLEVEL CHANGE to be sure that the table is really empty.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow all access paths in a cursor with FOR UPDATE

Due to the haloween-problem, some access paths are blocked for cursors with the FOR UPDATE-clause. Also for multi-row-fetch and FOR UPDATE there are restrictions if there is a IN-subquery
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration