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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...
almost 9 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...
almost 9 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?
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Update new V12 RTS catalog columns after reorg

In Db2 for z/OS v12, there are new catalog columns in the RTS tables such as:SYSIBM.SYSTABLEPART-TYPE-PAGENUM-BPOOL-PGSIZE-DSSIZE- MEMBER_CLUSTER-COMPRESSRATIO SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE-PAGENUM -INSERTALG -PQTY-STORTYPE -STORNAME -VCATNAMEetc. These co...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IFCID361 records should provide the names/stmt_id of the packages which are bound/rebound

The Tracerecords for IFCID 361 don't provide the package names for Bind/Rebind.
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Reduce message flooding on system console using Db2 System Profile Monitoring for security profiles when detecting non-secure connections and WARNING_DIAGLEVEL3

This Aha idea is being opened on behalf of Commerzbank (Ute Kleyensteuber). Security profiles are used with System Profile Monitoring filter LOCATION=*, ATTR1=WARNING_ DIAGLEVEL3, ATTR3=1 (TLS required) to discover all incoming non-secure connecti...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Indexing on log

We have tremendous log records populated on production system everyday. But logs are stored in log dataset simply sorted by timestamps even they are for different application events, system events and so on. That leads to bad log reading performan...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Drop Databases Created by Implicit Mapping Tables

Problem statement/ pain point: We have started to use on-line reorgs without specifying the mapping table because v11 will generate one for you. Pretty cool. Db2 will create a database, DSNnext_db_identity_number, create a table space, create the ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance DB2 global health monitoring to include "sick DB2" scenario

Enhance DB2 global health monitoring to include "sick DB2" scenario encountered in PMR 34910,082,000. In that particular case, DDF work continued routing to the sick member, instead of to only healthy members, and our customers were severely impac...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 should optimize queries adequately when are missing or out of date

In V12 it was intended to extend the NPGTHRSH to empty tables and to tables with missing stats. The idea was to pick up the appropriate index which means: if a sort can be avoided choose this one, otherwise pick up the index, which has the most ma...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration