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Db2 for z/OS

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DB2 accounting information

We are using the DB2 accounting information as a source for resource usage counts. We use for this purpose the accounting fields described in DSECT DSNDQXST (generated with the macro DSNDQXST). We find counts for the SQL statements SELECT, INSERT,...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Fix timeout errors during pending alter materialization reorgs

We're using DB2 z/OS V10 and tried using pending alter for making online schema change on an SAP table to increase a PBG table's DSSIZE from 4 GB to 64 GB. When we ran the SHRLEVEL CHANGE reorg to implement the pending alter, the reorg caused SAP ...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Update RLF to Handle Secondar Auth ID or Roles & Trusted Context

Would like to avoid coding specific userid's in RLF tables. I need a way to permit the DBA's to run certain plans/packages/collections that is not as restrictive as Developers. See PMR. My DBA"s belong to a group in RACF that I would like to use. ...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add an internal TERM UTIL command for Autonomic Runstats in case

Customer would like that DB2 code adds an 'internal' TERM UTIL commandwhen Autonomic Runbstats fails. This because DB2 automatically starts the Autonomic Rustats and automatically it should reset the satus in case of failure.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve precision of IFCID 199 times

Currently the two measures of average I/O delay in IFCID 199 (i.e. QW0199SV and QW0199AD) are only precise to one millisecond. We are about to move some critical Production DB2 tables and indexes to SSD (Solid State Disk), which means that these t...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Implement SMF records to have accounting info about inside statments

DB2 just counts the outside statement in its accounting report. It ignores all the inside statements.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Process times out due to locks held by another process. Have to resubmit the process.

Process times out due to locks held by another process. Have to resubmit the processes. The first process has an exclusive lock on a row, the second process is trying to run an UPDATE statement (see below) and times out because it can't get an UPD...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Column name isn't allowed after LIKE

SQL that does select * from xxx where 'value' like col1fails.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ASUTIME does not currently interrupt workloads running in Stored Procedures

ASUTIME work correctly for Stored Procs
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN diagnostic log record needs more information to be useful

The ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN diagnostic log record (type = 0x4400, subtype = 0x0083) lacks two crucial pieces of information as of DB2 V11 beta. 1. The inline length of the column if the added column is a LOB data type. 2. An indication that the col...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration