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Db2 for z/OS

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    SORTDATA NO and AREOR

    We need to change all limitkeys of one of our very large TS (several TBs). This implies that afterwards a REORG must run over the complete TS. Currently Db2 utilities do not fully support EAV volumes (our open requirement Support SORTWK with EAV [...
    3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Make Auto-start of PROFILE More Robust

    We have experienced PROFILE auto-start failure when the DB2 Recovery process was not complete. Hopefully, a change is made to the DB2 product to make auto-start succeed even in cases like that.
    about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Enhance RECOVERY utility to use information in a Safe Guarded Copy snapshot as recovery base for Db2 object level recovery

    We do a Safe Guarded Copy (SGC) every 2 hours. The ongoing value for SGC is for now primarily as an insurance for a CyberAttack by providing a last good copy. The idea is 'simply' - although I know there is likely nothing simple in this - to be ab...
    about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

    Reduce DSNB555I messages

    Hi, this idea is related case TS020701291 - Excessive number of DSNB555I messages. We are working for improve performance on DB2 applications and a important point is BufferPools with AUTOSIZE(Y) and PGFIX(Y), but we found that every WLM action se...
    about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

    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

    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 1 Not under 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

    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

    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

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