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Db2 for z/OS

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Allow join of base temporal table to archive enabled tables

Temporal and archive enabled tables both provide valuable features depending on the use case for the data. We've implemented both types of tables in our Production environment and had initially implemented temporal tables for one of our most criti...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve Space Search Performance for Nearly Full PBR

Currently, when there are many concurrent inserts on a PBR which is nearly full, CPU and elapsed time for inserts increases by many orders of magnitude, to the point where it can completely monopolize the CPU on an LPAR. In past discussions, I was...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Set Partition Index, DPSI to the same DSSIZE as Tablespace when converting to RPN and ALTER TABLESPACE DSSIZE is after ALTER TABLESPACE PAGENUM RELATIVE

In numerous cases it is impossible to put the ALTER TABLESPACE DSSIZE in front of the ALTER TABLESPACE PAGENUM RELATIVE due to the number of partitions and page size. Currently this only works with the following. After the reorg materialization th...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

SQL Data Insights - API to port a model definition from one Db2 (dev/test) to another Db2 (prod)

Most enterprise customers do not use UIs at all outside of test systems, all production work has to be automated and scripted. For example for all tasks around DDL deployment, object maintenance, etc. Regarding SQL Data Insights, the AI-enabling o...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Provide capability to set DSSIZE for implicitly created LOB Auxiliary Tablespaces

Currently an implicitly created LOB Auxiliary TS DSSIZE is set to 4G and does not adhere to the zparm IMPDSSIZE or the base TS DSSIZE. We would like the capability to influence the default DSSIZE for LOBs.This would also make it consistent with th...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Update REXX DSNTWFG to allow user to specify tablespace name prefixes

Allow users of DSNTWFG to specify new parameters TEMP4K_PREFIX, TEMP32K_PREFIX, SORT4K_PREFIX and SORT32K_PREFIX three character prefix for tablespace names.
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DDF Start with TCP/IP should be coordinated between Start Listener and Start DDF

During start of DDF inside DB2, DB2 start the Listener for TCP/IP requests and a small timeframe later the DDF. In this timeframe incoming requests are denied with REASON=00D31032 and follow-on errors. As an bypass we do not start DDF automaticall...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Begin / End COMMIT instrumentation for DRDA, CICS/IMS

Complex CICS/IMS or DRDA transactions (involving multiple programs with an implicit Commit at the end) are incorrectly presented on the Omegamon Accounting Report/Trace. By design the costs of the tough SYNC (COMMIT) operation are added to the las...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Return information about a failed Lock-Escalation to the application

When a Lock-Escalation occurs it is documented by message DSNI031I (Lock Escalation has occurred) in the Db2-Master-Adressspace. But when a Lock-Escalation fails there is no documentation for this, instead it comes to a Timeout or Deadlock from a ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Correct wrong data in IFCID0172 QW0172HQ/QW0172Q1 when package changes occur during waiting/deadlocking

The issue is that 1.- Thread 1 and Thread 2 get locks 2.- Thread 1 changes packages 3.- Thread 1 and 2 deadlock 4.- Thread 1 is chosen as blocker and deadlock processing uses user data from Thread 1's waiter, but the package dependent information ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration