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Db2 for z/OS

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DSNB328I to be issued when all attempts to automatically recover GRECP are exhausted in all scenarios

During DR testing on several occassions the DBAs at Walmart have found that there are circumstances where neither DSNB328I nor DSNB317I are issued and Db2 z/OS has exhausted all tries to automatically recover GRECPs. In these scenarios they were s...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Control DB2 z/OS IFCID 376 trace volume

When we need to turn on IFCID 376 trace to get information, the trace is an all or nothing setting for the system. In our case, the volume generates in excess of 56 million IFCID 376 records in a day. 99.9% of them are 1108: Long client special Re...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Stored-Proc ADMIN_UTL_SCHEDULE: Add a Stop-Condition to continue when RC > 12 occurs

When a Db2-Utility started by Stored-Procl ADMIN_UTL_SCHEDULE abends the Reason-Code is passed back as the Return-Code. This happens for example if REORG fails due to problems with allocating SORTWORK-Datasets, especially for big tables, or when i...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

432 VLDB - Reorg to Over-ride/ignore parms

We reorg a list of Tablespaces with a template and use STACK=YES. If a tablespace has an underlying LOB the reorg is abended. The requirement is to not have the REORG abend if the parameters are valid for the base table. SUGGESTION: We would like ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

LOCK1-Structure

By drop database with many objects (TS,IX,Part) and a lot of statistic data, it can happen that the Lock1 structure gets full. Other possible reasons for LOCK1-Structure full conditions during DDL (DROP): - Object has to many entries in SYSIBM.SYS...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reorg Rebalance should consider available pages (FREEPAGE, DSSIZE)

Reorg Rabalance should not always distribute the rows evenly across the partitions, but instead should also take into account the available space, e.g. if the partitions have different DSSIZE distributing the rows evenly is not feasable. The same ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

256 VLDB2012 - DB2 command addition -DISPLAY SCHEMA

DB2 commands need to be improved in many aspects to provide additional usability, functionality and detail. -DISPLAY SCHEMA This would provide identical functionality to -DISPLAY DATABASE but with qualifiers based on SCHEMA and TABLE/INDEX (OBJECT...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve the RTS collections when mass deletes are taking place.

Improve the collection and externalization of RTS especially on objects involved with mass delete operations. Please see the PRM for additional information. 91244,122,000
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Alter (global) VARIABLE command

It is not possible to ALTER a global variable, it is necessary to do DROP + re-CREATE it. And previously we must DROP all the objects that depends on it: PROCEDURE, FUNCTION, TRIGGER, VIEWS ..., and the packages are marked as invalid. After havin...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Simple and fast recovery of DB2 CF structures.

Currently there is a list of steps on what to do in case of failures in DB2 CF structures.These structures are vitally important for DB2 Data Sharing. I suggest having a single command that allows quick and easy error recovery for these DB2 struct...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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