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Db2 for z/OS

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Improvement of FlashCopy Load on a PBR

When loading with LOG NO a PBR at tablespace level, all partitions will be copied by FlashCopy and not only the ones that were updated. But when FLASHCOPY NO is specified, only the partitions that were update will get COPY PENDING flag. The FlashC...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Enable customers running 24/7 to create unique indexes

Our Internet and Mobile applications are used 24/7 and we do not have any batch windows nor any maintenance windows. When creating new indexes on existing tables the a CREATE INDEX operation generates an unwanted outage when created with DEFER NO....
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Status change or pending DDL when adding a KEY LABEL to an existing table

When an existing table is altered to add a KEY LABEL to enable encryption on the table, the encryption only takes effect post a Reorg (effectively post a redefinition of the underlying VSAM datasets). So the alter is effectively incomplete until s...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Prevent SPT01 growth with new behaviour REBIND(EXTENDED) in Cod-Level M510

Before Codlevel M510, PHASEIN functionality was only used when the package was executing Since the implementation of Codlevel M510 (include PTF 73874 (APAR PH28693)), executing a REBIND with PLANMGMT(EXTENDED) will always store information in SYSP...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Expand the scope of TRANSFER OWNERSHIP DDL

The TRANSFER OWNERSHIP DDL should also be applied to stored procedures, triggers, functions, constraints, global variables, sequences, etc.
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Future consideration

proactive messages of objects ??% full or 'follow-up objects free space' function inside Db2

Follow up TS and XS limits in Db2 z/OS is not an easy job. The last 6 months, we coped issues with partitioned indexes full. This were partitioned bases 'temporarily session' tables for applications, whereby the not active partition is cleaned up ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable use of DSN_PROFILE* tables global variables for local workload

At the following link, we see global variables can be used with profile tables. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=connections-setting-built-in-global-variables-profile-tables However, there is a sentence that mentions the following:...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable zEDC for Tempdatasets

Actually no temporary Datasets are zEDC eligible, i suppose because there is no long term benefit in space reduction. Especially DB2 with LISTDEF (for example Reorg Tablespace LIST with SORTDEVT specification of very large Tablespaces) would benef...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Delete DB2 Old Archive logs without stopping DB2

We have a lot of old logs in our DB2 BSDS that no longer exist. I dont find a documentation that explain how to remove them without stopping DB2 and in the DB2 doc : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=utilities-dsnju003-change-log-in...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

RID problem instrumentation improvement

The IFI 2 & 3 fields QISTRLLM and QISTRPLM and the RID fields in the 316 and 401 are all basically “useless” these days to actually detect a RID related limit problem. I know that the QXRFMIAP is available in the IFI 2 & 3 but it is needed...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration