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Db2 for z/OS

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Expanding Messages DSNB355I and DSNB356I

MSG DSNB355I / DSNB356I did not give information for the affected object and page. So any reaction and reason search on these Messages is not possible. Please expand the message information for the object information with DBID.PSID.#partno.#pageno.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow for LISTDEF Processing and Template when specifying FROMCOPYDDN on an UNLOAD

Details: 1) Site has multiple tablespaces that use a consistent naming scheme for image copies.2) Manual does not mention use of "template-name" in the FROMCOPYDDN line of the "source-spec" section of the "UNLOAD" page.3) Receive following error w...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Copytocopy utility runs in parallel

BdB does a flashcopy from one tablespace (one copy for each partition), and they need to do a COPYTOCOPY. Today we use another DB2 utility vendor and it has an option to do parallel copies.We tried to run IBM DB2 Utility, but we didn't find an par...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance DSN1COMP to allow more than one input per job step

Currently only one full copy image may be included in each job step //jobname JOB acct information//COMPEST EXEC PGM=DSN1COMP,PARM='FULLCOPY'//STEPLIB DD DSN=prefix.SDSNLOAD,DISP=SHR//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A//SYSABEND DD SYSOUT=A//SYSUT1 DD DSN=COPY0...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Identify a more representative selectivity for common predicates

Our queries have predicates that many queries share in common where the default selectivity is significantly outside the range of what ever actually occurs. This results in poor and/or unstable query performance. For common predicates with high un...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CHECK DATA for informational referential constraints

We use informational referential constraints, i.e. foreign keys defined as NOT ENFORCED for some relationships between tables. When running the CHECK DATA utility for a table with foreign keys defined as NOT ENFORCED the foreign keys are not check...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PLANNAME and PROGNAME in error-message if PROGAUTH(ENABLE) error

Hi When a program fails e.g. with reasoncode 00F3003B, I want to see in the error message, which row DB2 tried to find in SYSIBM.DSNPROGUATH, i.e. I need program- nad planname.
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow Multiple Dataset Inputs to DSN1PRNT

Allow more than 1 input dataset for use with the DSN1PRNT stand-alone utility. This would function as a concatenated list under the SYSUT1 DD.
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSNTIJXZ should create complete DSNTIDxx member

DSNTIJXZ currently produces a DSNTIDxx member that has a lot of default values, like BSDS name, WLM environments, etc. To be really useful, all relevant values need to be extracted from the running system in order to avoid hunting down actual valu...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Db2 for z/OS: Change SETCURRENTVERSION via Reorg

Now, the Repair Utility with option SETCURRENTVERSION has to be used, to change all v0 tables to the highestVersion. Unfortunately this action is not concurrent. It would be better to have the the opportunity to do that with an online reorg.
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration