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Db2 for z/OS

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Bar particular DB2 group members from castout ownership

Currently the first member of a DB2 share group that lodges group update intent becomes the castout owner for that buffer pool. In the real world some LPARs can be significantly capped damaging write/update performance for the whole share group. W...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide DISPLAY command option to generate XML

The various DISPLAY commands in DB2 return a lot of useful data. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to store the output in a DB2 table. If every DISPLAY command came with an option that returned the output in loadable XML format, we could store t...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve performance of except statement

Hi, For the first time I had a use for the except statement. It is quite simple: SELECT DISTINCT LOG_PGM FROM BDSTB030_BDSLOG EXCEPT SELECT LOG_PGM FROM BDSTB031_BDSLOG_SLET I want all LOG_PGM from the first table, that is not in the secon...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Automation Utility to convert from IBM RACF DB2 External Security to IBM DB2 Internal Security.

We are requesting a DB2 Automation Utility to convert from IBM RACF DB2 External Security to IBM DB2 Internal Security. This utility must be able to do the reverse of the RACF/DB2 Conversion Utility that was used to convert data in DB2 Internal Se...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Deletion of Empty PBG Partitions with no UTUT access after switch phase

When removing empty partitions in a PBG tablespace after the switch phase of the reorg, the space is put into UTUT access, which causes -904 00C90082 to be returned to the application.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reduce minimum value for Zparm MAXCONQW from 5 to 0

Our team is wanting to make use of MAXCONQN/MAXCONQW zparms, and they are wanting to have as much control of the values of these zparms as possible. The minimum value of MAXCONQW is 5 seconds, but we are wanting to have values between 0 and 5 for ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

FORMAT INTERNAL with REORG DISCARD

REORG with DISCARD does not support FORMAT INTERNAL like UNLOAD and LOAD. REORG with DISCARD is used in many use cases for Archiving OLD data. Having FORMAT INTERNAL in REORG with DISCARD would be good if DISCARD dataset is in INTERNAL format for ...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to change APPEND for tables for xml column

For tables that implicitly created for XML columns, the APPEND is inherited from the base table. It is only correct for the CREATE statement. Altering the base table and change the APPEND value does not change in the xml table. Try to alter t...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DB2 "DISPLAY PROCEDURE" Command To Include Native Store Procs.

Change "DISPLAY PROCEDURE" Command To Include Native Store Procedures
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

New pseudo-delete zparms

We've been told that pages trigger pseudo-delete cleanup when they become > 4% free entries. Please make this % a zparm. We would also like the calculation that triggers pseudo-delete cleanup to use another new zparm for the minimum # of entrie...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration