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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...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 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...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DISPLAY EARLY CODE command

Good to know what the level of of the DB2 early code. IBM currently make viewing the early code level far more difficult than it needs to be.
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

DB2 Catalog and INDEX COMPRESSION statistics (PAGESAVE and BP_UNUSED)

If an index is compressed, it is documented in DB2 catalog table SYSIBM.SYSINDEXES column called ‘COMPRESS’ Tablespace compression is documented in SYSTABLESPACE and SYSTABLEPART. In both tables with column called ‘COMPRESS’ SYSTABLEPART also co...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Future consideration

Db2 Unload from a Cursor

Enhance the Db2 UNLOAD utility to perform an unload from a declared cursor
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow the ability to set the management, storage, and data classes the SPUFI panels.

We have a security policy requiring us to encrypt all possible 'Data at Rest'. We use the IBM solution called Pervasive Encryption (PE). Our storage team has defined SMS Data Classes that can be used to allocate encrypted datasets. In order ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow REPLACE external SQL SP with Native

Currently, CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE in DB2 13 has a limitation that " If a procedure exists with the specified name, the existing procedure must be a native SQL procedure". Migration from external SQL stored procedures to Native SQL stored proc...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow Encrypted Connection for IBM Debug Tool and Unified Debugger

Reviewing the connection with the Db2 Unified debugger, it was determined it was not using an encrypted port. All tools (mainframe or otherwise) should support full encryption over ATL-TLS.
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

issue DISPLAY BLOCKERS instead of DISPLAY CLAIMERS when DRAIN timeout

Currently when DRAIN fails during REORG, a DISPLAY CLAIMERS is issued. The draw back is there is no "age" information, so user does not know which thread is the blocker, because the claimer could also be waiter.
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

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