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Enhance display utility command

It would be useful to be able to determine if a utility (such as REORG) is safe to terminate w/o forcing a recovery. I'd like to see if it's using a shrlevel other than NONE.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Multiple PROFILE tables with suffix

In the same datasharing group we have members with similar but not identical DDF workload. From an application server same AUTHID runs with 100 DBAT but in another member with 500 DBAT. If we had a chance to use multiple PROFILE tables as like RLF...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

DB2 DSNTIJPM catmaint update

The pre migration job DSNTIJPM should check for catalog integrity As far as i can count we have got 11 special catmaint update PTF's with hold data in V 10 the DSNTIJPM job should check if all this special caytmaint updates have been solved before...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 enhancement of global transaction processing

We have COBOL batch procedure started on z/OS that gets always abend for SQL error -911 . The Cobol Host program1 does DB2 SP in order to transfer control on MicroFocus COBOL on linux and then return on z/OS by doing another SP call where another ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

simplified code path for RI checking

We had an interesting discussion with the development team about this. As I already mentioned, the RI code path is quite different than the R-scan which may use one or more predicates to evaluate the qualifying rows. The main module that is drivin...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Native SQL Stored Procedure Maintenance Is Invalidating Dependent Packages

For DB2 V10 and V11. When any of following 3 things are done against a NSP (Native SQL Stored Procedure)1. Alter to Activate a version2. Bind Deploy Action(Replace)3. Alter RegenerateAll the packages dependent on the NSP are being invalidated and ...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IFCID 365 - Set variable QLSTNTLS to -1 for unknown.

TLS/SSL Used Number of connections from the remote site that were configured with SSL and AT/TLS support. This value is meaningful only at the server. (Field name: QLSTNTLS). We are reporting on this field and are seeing some values of 0 for conne...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

JSON support using built in functions instead of UDF

JSON functions in DB2 are implemented as UDF functions and it is understood from IBM that there are performance implications for large volume processing using JSON UDF functions. We would like to request IBM to support JSON functions as Db2 built ...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Increase (over current limit of 10000) the value for Zparm MAXARCH

Is it possible to increase (over current limit of 10000) the value for Zparm MAXARCH (archive log volumes that are to be recorded in the BSDS). Our Production System sometimes cuts over 5,000 Archive Logs in the business' standard Image Copy reten...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

RTS history table outside DSNDB06

With DB2 12 new function features, IBM added RTS temporal history option. This is an excellent option, considering we used to perform that manually. Unloading and reloading the STATS into a history table. The new option, creates 2 new tables with ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration