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Db2 for z/OS

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Lock hashing algorithms of DB2 and XES are incompatible. Leads to excessive False Contention and high IRLM CPU for GLM xfer

There is an anomaly between DB2 and XES hashing algorithms which means that a 4-byte DB2 (unique) lock hash value passed to XES may not be hashed to a unique value by XES unless the LTE size is set excessively high (1G). I understand that DB2 hash...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add wildcard support to all system profile tables filtering criteria categories

Using system profile tables to control workloads is a very useful feature and hence it is more and more used.During our tests, we found out that we have the need to use wildcards within the DSN_PROFILE_TABLE filtering categories of a PROFILEID. In...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable RENAME TABLE on tables with triggers

SAP is working on enable the Zero Downtime solution (ZDO), which uses RENAME TABLE to switch between old and new table definitions, also for SAP systems that use a sidecar (SAP SLT - System Landscape Transformation). For SLT, SAP defines triggers ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

EXPLAIN PACKAGE - Populate all EXPLAIN tables

EXPLAIN PACKAGE only populates the PLAN_TABLE It should allow for the population of explain tables
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2MSTR could issue a message at startup when there is an APF library problem instead of making an abend S0C4 in DSNYASCP

Sometimes we are having changes in APF libraries and if one or more libraries are not authorized, the MSTR address space will fail with an abend S0C4 in module DSNYASCP An informative message providing the name(s) of APF libraries causing problem ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide table function that collects DSN1COMP data

For sake of brevity, I will confine this request to DB2 index compression analysis, but it also applies to tablespaces. When have more than 100,000 indexes in our various Production DB2 systems. We want to know which of these indexes are the most ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Populate correct proggname on DSN_QUERYINFO_TABLE when accelerating queries using IBM DSM

We need to correct identify the progname column on the DSN_QUERYINFO_TABLE. While doing the acceleration task on IBM DSM, instead of populating the column with the value of the package, the accelerator populates de column with the value 'SYSLH200'...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSN1COMP - include support for 'EXTNDICT' with Huffman dictionaries

produced an object module that can be link-edited into a program
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Future consideration

REORG with the DISCARD WHEN ... and AUX YES option on a table that contains a LOB column should end with an error

When doing a REORG with the DISCARD WHEN ... and AUX YES option on a table that contains a LOB column , DB2 list the message 'DSNU124I Æ 286 09:07:08.23 DSNURFIT - AUX YES SPECIFICATION IS IGNORED AND AUX NO IS IN EFFECT FOR CURRENT UTILITY EXECU...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Add SHADOW for REBUILD INDEX SHRLVE CHANGE

Differences between REBUILD INDEX SHRLEVEL CHANGE and REFERENCE. Reference PMR:13307,124,672
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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