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REPORT RECOVERY - new syntax requested to externalise just the image copy and log datasets

REPORT RECOVERY provides the CURRENT and SUMMARY keywords but even for these options the job output is either very verbose (Unit of Recovery, SYSCOPY entries, Archive log datasets, volume numbers for the LOG datasets etc) or too little (just the v...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

externalize stop command failure

objects remain in STOPP when stop fails with no indication that it failed. a manual start followed by a manual stop is required to cause the object to proceed to a stop state. it's unfortunate, that issuing a start is required since that will allo...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Instrument workfile high-watermarks in ACCTG

Instrument IFCID 0003 and IFCID 0148 counter(s) to show the maximum amount of Workfile used by a thread (4K blocks total, or separate by tables/indexes, or separate by 4K/32K Workfiles -- implementation choice.) It is difficult to manage Workfile ...
over 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

High CPU utilisation in CF structure xxxx_SCA

We have noticed that the structure DB2P_SCA in production the reason for high CPU consumption in the Coupling Facility is. Our reporting proofs this behaviour. We opened a case and did a deeper dive with IBM’s experts into. At the end we can say t...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

From Symphony GUI should be able to export the data of all the hosts (Manager/SSM/Compute).

From Symphony GUI should be able to export the data of all the hosts (Manager/SSM/Compute). We are requesting you please provide us the export functionality, so we can export all the data from GUI to the excel spreadsheet. As present there is no s...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 4 Future consideration

Add a message to report orphan threads in DB2

Due to TCPIP abend, there are several orphan threads in DB2 causing contention issues on resources. There is no message to report these orphan threads. Having a report helps us to avoid contention issues sooner by cancelling the underlying orphan ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DSNADSM for DB2 V11 does not gather information about SYSIBM.SYSSTATFEEDBACK

DSNADSM for DB2 V11 does not gather information about SYSIBM.SYSSTATFEEDBACK – This might lead to incomplete Runstats recommandations when reporting an access path problems via an SQL, as the DSN_STAT_FEEDBACK from the explain tables might not c...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

options itemerror

I'd like to see any error handled by the itemerror parm of the options utility. Currently it only handles those errors that cause a RC8. If it is an unavailable resource or something else that causes an abend the step will abend rather than proces...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Better info -904 Dynamic SQL

In Case TS018158208 we described Our clients gets due a exchange: EXCHANGE DATA BETWEEN TABLE <owner>.<tablename> AND <owner>.<tablename-CLONE>; SQLERROR ON EXCHANGE COMMAND, EXECUTE FUNCTION RESULT OF SQL STATEMENT: DSNT40...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enhance TRANSLATE working on character basis

The current TRANSLATE function is working on Byte Basis which is OK for EBCDIC but not for Unicode Data. Please provide a similar function as SUBSTRING which is working on character basis regardless of Underlying codepage! PMR23932,060,618
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration