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Db2 for z/OS

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Enhanced Instrumentation for workfiles

A possibility through IFI and/or a new command -DIS WORKFILES to get an “asis” use list of all work pools (Sort , DGTT, Work etc.) This data is crucial for tuning the number, size and type of the work spaces that we all have. The output should be ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Special type of technical accounts similar to RACF restricted

Hello, I want to enable our cloud using applications a direct access to Db2 z/OS. Unfortunately a firewall rule allows the access to all readable resources, not only the desired tables / views. So it would be perfect to have a restricted technical...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Way to tell if a Db2 view is not being used any longer

We are looking for a solution to tell if a Db2 view is still used or not.A request came to our team to rename a column in several tables. One of the tables have multiple view on it, and one of the view includes the column to be renamed. We cannot ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 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 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Future consideration

API to write dictionary to log

A number of our common customers run DB2 utilities from third party vendors and IBM replication solutions. They are requesting that our LOAD and REORG utilities write the old dictionary pages to the log for later retrieval by a replication product...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Allow to query and stop an object in one go to avoid STOPP

HSM allows to move DB2 page sets by stopping them and copying them and then starting the page sets again. HSM does this by DIS DB(...) SP(...) USE and a subsequent STO DB(...) SP(...). If in the small timing window between the DIS command and the ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

ALTER STOGROUP can run in parallel to applications => Deferred ALTER

We need to move a lot of page sets and hence a lot of data from one z/OS catalog to another and also to other stogroups and volumes. For this task we nned to ALTER the hlq of the page sets and move them via DFDSS FASTREPLICATION. Unfortunately the...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow the SQL ALTER statement to convert SYNONYMS into ALIASES.

We have over 800,000 synonyms across 100+ DB2 subsystems/data sharing groups to convert to aliases. In our production environments, the conversion of synonyms to aliases (DROP SYNONYM/CREATE ALIAS) is going to cause carnage because all of our prod...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Wrap-around PBG table optimized for time-series data

Add support for a new type of PBG table/tablespace which is optimized for time series data, such as that used for journaling, logging, staging, history collection, etc. The main feature of this new PBG table/tablespace is that data is always inser...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Trim blanks from 60 byte statement text in IFCID 316

IFCID 316 contains only the first 60 bytes of the SQL text. Some programs may, for readability, include lots of blank spaces around SQL text. In extreme cases (python scripts) the text is preceded by a line of blanks. In these cases the 60 bytes o...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration