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Db2 for z/OS

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Performance improvement for sync i/o

A track that is not fully formatted is not eligible for sync i/o (zHyperLink). With the existing code, DB2 sends sync i/o request to all tracks, even ones that are not fully formatted. These i/o get rejected and retried as transport mode. I'd like...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add another counter to indicate that access was allowed due to install SYSADM authority rather than modifying the existing PKG-AUTH UNSUCC-CACHE counter behavior

If Installation SYSADM is used for EXECUTE authority on a package, the entry is not cached in the CACHEPAC area. However, the PKG-AUTH UNSUCC-CACHE count will be incremented even though the Installation SYSADM ID is not being cached in the CACHEPA...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 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...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 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 re...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

EXPLAIN Authority - Include Explain of Dynamic Stmt Cache

Include Explain of Dynamic Statement Cache with the EXPLAIN authority or create a new authority that has EXPLAIN plus EXPLAIN STMTCACHE but not all the authority of SQLADM (ie update of DB2 Catalog Tables)
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSNRXXXX tables userID case sensitive problem

Hello,This enhancement request is referenced to PMR 17878,001,862 . Please review PMR 17878,001,862 . We are using db2 10 for z/OS and external security -RACF- on this system . DB2 user's distributed connection type is JDBC / ODBC. They reach db2 ...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Trusted Context d...

Actually it is not possible to use JOBNAME (local) and ADDRESS (remote) for option ATTRIBUTES (mutually exclusive) for Trusted Context definition.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

New message reporting tha...

RTS Temporal tables are defined as UTS/PBG/MAXPART 1. Please provide a message if e.g. 80% of available space is reached and a second message if e.g. 90% are reached. The message should be written once if the threshold is reached. It might be help...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

V12-CERT-2017 Refresh VIEW / CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW / VIEW VERSIONING.

While tables can be altered online; views need to be dropped and recreated, resulting in business impact or planned downtimes (our environment is making extensive use of the ANSI SPARC three level architecture, with many views and views on views)....
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 SQLCA feedback field indicating if this UOW is blocking others

On DB2 12 CERT (V12-CERT-2017) we discussed the possibility of increasing concurrency in DB2. In a typical batch environment we try to balance #of commits towards concurrency using a so-called commit-control-system that will have COMMIT on a numbe...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration