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Db2 for z/OS

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-MODIFY GBPOOL command - Allow Db2 sysadmins to manage GBP CF structures without permitting access to MVS SETXCF

The Challenge Currently, the Data-Sharing Planning and Administration Guide states that SETXCF commands are necessary for the administration of Db2 Group Bufferpools, particularly functions such as: Re-sizing group bufferpools Rebuilding group...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DSNADSM for DB2 V11 does not gather information about SYSIBM.SYSSTATFEEDBACK

DSNADSM for DB2 V11 does not gather information about SYSIBM.SYSSTATFEEDBACK – This might lead to incomplete Runstats recommandations when reporting an access path problems via an SQL, as the DSN_STAT_FEEDBACK from the explain tables might not c...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

UTF8 conversion problem - EBCDIC

Message UTF-8 => After conversion in EBCDIC EBCDIC_STR('Hi, my name is Андрей (Andrei)'); => Hi, my name is \0410\043D\0434\0440\0435\0439 (Andrei) But for the character � (UTF-8 replacement character) the function returns the value X'3F' in...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 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...
about 7 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...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

RUNSTATS Partition Pageset Processing

DB2 RUNSTATS process opens all pagesets for all partitions and all indexes up front and keeps them open during the life of the utility.Could there be changes made so RUNSTATS utility open pagesets and releases pagesets when needed?
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Moving extra area for IRLM latch information provided by PI93817 from QTXA to a new section.

This is related to PMR 73570,611,760. Applying a PTF for PI93817, new 124 bytes fields for IRLM latch contention counters are added to IFCID QTXA section, which is shared between statistics and accounting trace. However, those new fields are used ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Auditing administrative authorities in DB2 zOS with RACF-Exit DSNX$XAC

DB2 IFCID361 should be written when an administrative authority is used - Independent of the security exit used. When using the full RACF-Exit DSNX$XAC DB2 IFCID361 is not written/supressed , as RACF grants the access -- but does not give back to ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

To add a built in REVERSE( ) function in the SQL of DB2

CCB want to add an build-in REVERSE( ) function in the SQL of DB2 for z/OS. There is an alternative way of using UDF, but customer worry about it's perfromance, they prefer to add an build-in REVERSE( ) function in SQL. The REVERSE function is use...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

JSON Indexing on non-inline LOBs

Currently IBM allows the creation of indexes for JSON docs stored in an inline LOB but not a non-inline LOB. We want to make full use of JSON docs in DB2 for zOS. We wanted to avoid having to move more apps to MongoDB.
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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