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Db2 for z/OS

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Change Isolation Level to UR on Read-Only DBs / Tablespaces / Partitions

Databases, Tablespaces, and Partitions can be started in Db2 in read-only (RO) mode. This allows user transactions to access data in these objects only for read (SELECT). Therefore no modification to this data can be made. However, when accessing ...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide SQL access to product statistics API's

Provide a way to bring statistics from various products API's into an SQL context. Sample has been shown to selected zBLC customers during the Dublin face-2-face. Requirement has been discussed with Jeff Josten / Chris Crone. Offer has been made t...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Issue command DISPLAY DB CLAIMERS on a LOAD SHRLEVEL NONE when DRAIN fails in UTILINIT phas

We faced situations in which LOAD SHRLEVEL NONE jobs abends with S04E and Reason Code 00C200EC during UTILINIT phase. When this abends occurs, LOAD was unable to DRAIN all the claimers, once it is SHRLEVEL NONE, before beggining LOAD data into tab...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Override filesystem option for DSNASMKD, DSNLSMKD, DSNWSMKD and DSNISMKD jobs

For modules that create USS directories, the following modules exist: DSNASMKD, DSNLSMKD, DSNWSMKD, DSNISMKD They will all create directories under /usr/lpp/db2 or /usr/lpp/db2c10 (or another variant) It's possible to invoke these programs with a ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Modify DSNJU004 to print all information stored in a Db2 BSDS

Not everything that resides in a BSDS can be printed via this utility. However several items are stored in the BSDS that we need to go to several other places to get the information
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable DSNTIAUL to generate NUMRECS in the punchdataset

The UNLOAD using DSNUTILB generates the NUMRECS parameter which makes the Allocation of Sort/Workdatasets for the Load utility very effective. Because some collegues use IKJEFT01 (DSNTIAUL) for unloading data, we tried to use NUMRECS here also. Bu...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Message for START DATABASE

Message for LOG MSTR of the command START DATABASE and STOP DATABASE.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Command confirmation in joblog of DB2MSTR.

DB2 has many commands which display or alter the status of something. There are a lot of distinct environments from which the commands can be executed (z/OS console, DSN session, TSO DSN command processor, IMS or CICS terminal, special STPs, IFI-i...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

RUNSTATS with exception consideration

All DB2 customers use RUNSTATS. The RUNSTATS results are used by the DB2 optimizer to determine optimal access plans. In 99.999 percent of all cases this is not a problem. However, there are some objects (tablespaces / indices) for which a RUNSTAT...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

A View with Select * should be regenertated without Drop/Create View

We have a lot of views defined with Select *. Since DB2 V8 we have the option to add columns to the base table, but the view does not include the new column, which is ok and accepted. But to get the new column we have to drop and recreate the View...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration