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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

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 ...
almost 8 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...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Update DB2 (DDF) to use a stronger Hash Algorithm in the DDF global authentication cache feature

Presently, DB2 DDF is using MD5 Hashing in the DDF global authentication cache feature. This hashing cipher is long considered weak and guidance is that it should no longer be used. We ask IBM to consider a change to DB2 to up level this feature t...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future 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

DB2 IFI306 metrics

With out IFCID 306 log read metrics, it is difficult assess capture task efficiency and performance
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Explain STMTCACHE By DSG instead of 1 member

EXPLAIN STMTCACHE ALL will only enter data into the DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE table for the member of the datasharing group on the LPAR which it's running. To get all of the dynamic SQL stats, the EXPLAIN has to run multiple times. Have the ability to e...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow non-intrusive RENAME of Constraint Names

Allow for a non-intrusive RENAME of any type of CONSTRAINT name. Primary Key, Foreign Key, CHECK and UNIQUE Constraint names should be available for RENAME. Currently, changing Constraint names requires the Constraint to be dropped and re-created ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance DSNTXAZP

DB2 provides a tool called DSNTXAZP to create a CLIST input member. It reads the default input member AND connects to a DB2 subsystem to read current installation parameters. Currently the tool is not able to discover important prameters like BSDS...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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