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Db2 for z/OS

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refresh MQT with ur

Up to now a REFRESH MQT with the UR-Option is not possible.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IBM Unload to support parallelism for LOB Tablespaces

We are trying to unload large LOB tablespaces in a performant manner. Please see PMR 76429 999 866 in relation to this. IBM Unload currently issues misleading messages saying parallelism will be invoked. However this is not the case and the utili...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

make SQL cost estimation more accurate

DB2 for z/OS provided cost estimation before execution for each SQL.We can use explain to check that. And DB2 governor (DB2 Resource Limit Facitliy) use the cost estimation for predictive governor. How ever the cpu cost estimation is not correct f...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Referential Integrity for Real-time Statistics Tables (RI for RTS)

OVERVIEW: The RTS tables do not have DB2-enforced RI. The DB2 component that handles the maintenance of this data can encounter certain failures that can result in obsolete/invalid/orphaned data in the table(s). By the way, this is more prevalent ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ALTER DEFINE NO - REORG to delete all dataset(s)

: I know that there is a change in place now with the newest version to delete unused datasets for a PBG tablespace with a REORG, I was wondering if there might be something in the future where we could ALTER a Tablespace/Index to DEFINE NO and th...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow the alteration to another bufferpool (with the same page size) for a specific partition.

When deciding on which bufferpool to place a tablespace in, I have found that different partitions have different requirements. when the "hotspot" of a table (that would benefit by being in a larger bufferpool) is at the end, putting the last part...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Runstats when using profiles

RUNSTATS enhancement - an execution of RUNSTATS with REPORT YES would provide the actual and complete information in the PROFILE_TEXT column of the SYSIBM.SYSTABLES_PROFILES row for the table of interest without executing the stats. Also, when act...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Temporal Join Capabilities

The table reference syntax for temporal joins needs to be expanded to include effective ways to find rows across the tables that share time affectivity.The FOR BUSINESS_TIME / FOR SYSTEM_TIME syntax does not allow for references to columns from th...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Full length of timestamp not seen in data studio

We are not able to see the full lenght of a timestamp when running a sql select agains a db2 table using data studio.DS is only showing 29 characters. the total lenght of the field is 32 characters. Column is declared timestamp 13 in DB2. I can r...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Alter Index add column

When altering index adding columns ' the index status change to rebuild pendig ' need to put in in change pending and let appliction use this index until rebuild or reorg the index , and then rebind packeges
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration