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Db2 for z/OS

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Long Time to restart DB2 caused by Rollback in SYSIBM.SYSSEQUENCE

As in PMR 94522,250,631:"Yes, it'd good to ask customer to submit a RFE so that this issue can be evaluated by the DB2 development architects. The current DB2 behavior was designed and implemented before SYSIBM.SYSSEQUENCE exists. Thank you very m...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

DSNHDECP usage

The DSNHDECP modules is currently used in our shop and needs to be created for every DB2 subsystem, or data sharing group. This means that we need to create individual SDSNEXIT libraries for each subsystem. We used to have one SDSNEXIT which held ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

new fixcat categories in maintenance stream

We would like to have new fixcat categories for security and performance. Currently this is a manual process that is labor intensive and in some cases time prohibitive. New security policies require that we identify fixes that are security or perf...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add the column name to sqlcode -407

When there are many columns in the sql and there are many rows that affected by the sql, it is very difficult to found the problematic column.For example, if it is an INSERT statement with fullselect, or UPDATE statement that update many rows with...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add an option to DB2 for z/OS utility REPAIR

The Repair-Utility has almost all features to fit a pageset, copied from one DB2 sub system („Source“) into another („Target“):· REPAIR LEVELID to prohibit downlevel detection· REPAIR CATALOG to alter the DB2 catalog to accept some pages...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Option to terminate of SLB after timeout if HSM doesn't answer Flashcopy-request fast

I would like to have an timeout in DB2 for SLB-processing!If HSM is in error it may be able to accept the Flashcopy-request but not to fulfill it. To prevent 00D70044 there should be an option for a DB2-internal timeout of SLB-processing.If this t...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable RENAME TABLE on tables with triggers

SAP is working on enable the Zero Downtime solution (ZDO), which uses RENAME TABLE to switch between old and new table definitions, also for SAP systems that use a sidecar (SAP SLT - System Landscape Transformation). For SLT, SAP defines triggers ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the TO_DATE scalar function for source data in week dependant format data

With the TO_CHAR scalar function i can convert a "normal" date format to a week dependant format.e.g. select to_char('30.03.2017', 'IYYY.IW.ID') from sysibm.sysdummy1 delivers 2017.13.4; fourth isoday (thursday) in week 13 of year 2017. The invers...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Rebuild should materialize pending changes on indexes

Recently we had big problems with index splits. Therefore we altered the bufferpool from 4K-pages to 8K-pages and run a rebuild. But we had to ran a reorg on the whole tablespace, which has about 1 billion rows and a few indexes, which we wanted t...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IFCID 316 401 ZiiP Usage Statistics

Currently the IFCIDs 316 and 401 contains great data for monitoring and tuning SQLs. It would be excellent if these IFCIDs could be extended to include a separate set of ZiiP counters. IFCID 25 does this for Utilities at the moment.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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