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    IFI READS support for IFCID 105

    IFCID 105 contains information needed to map DBID/OBID values to object names. This information is produced on the STATS interval and contains mapping for EVERY object currently open to DB2. On large systems, thousands of IFCID 105 records may be ...
    almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    After START DB2 LIGHT(YES), provide new status messages while waiting for indoubt thread resolution

    When DB2 is restartet using the LIGHT(YES) or LIGHT(CASTOUT) clause and indoubt URs exist, DB2 issues message DSNR052I at the end of restart. After this message, there is no acitvity driven by DB2 itself, that allows a monitoring or identifying wh...
    almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    397 VLDB - Improve Logging Offload along with insert performance

    Now that flashcopy/backupsystem has been validated for user/catalog objects would it be possible to provide similar solutions for the db2 Log offloads
    almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    modify dsntep2 to produce result set despite exceessive warnings

    DB2 and IDAA do not produce the same results for the example in question. That has been explained and will be documented but we would like to see DSNTEP2 at least run and produce output instead of only returning SQL error codes (-171 in our exampl...
    almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Avoid CHECK PENDING when adding column with constraint

    The ability to add a column to a table and at the same time specifying a check constraint, without having to run check data.The constraint should be "simple", i.e. only referencing the new column.The default value should off course satisfy the con...
    almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    DB2 object lock - return code on the ESS Normal Call Exit interface

    In the case where an object lock is not available for an External SubSystem ( ESS ) origin thread, DB2 should not return the 'temporary error" return code on the ESS Normal Call Exit interface.It would be acceptable to make this optional. Justific...
    about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    A Sort-Merge Join should be considered when joining on a SUBSTR expression

    When tuning the following query, I saw that changing the "INNER JOIN" to a "FULL JOIN" caused it to perform many times better (which changed the join from a NLJ to a SMJ): SELECT ARCHIVE_STRT.LOCAL_TS AS LOCAL_TS_STRT, TIMESTAMPDIFF(2, CAST(ARCHIV...
    about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Class 2 In-DB2 CPU times are often zero

    With DB2's current IFI implementation, class 2 times are updated when a class 2 event occurs. Consequently, when IFCID 148 is requested for a thread that is In-DB2, no CPU times can be seen until the SQL statement ends. IFCID 148 must reflect the ...
    about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    prohibit alter/create tablespace not logged

    Performing create/alter tablespace to be not logged might be considered a security problem.A solution for this can be a new ZPARM or a special privilege (in RACF & Db2) that will prohibit anyone from doing so, even SYSADM/DBADM etc. Another "c...
    about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Audit Policy enhancement for Global Temporary Tables

    Audit policies are used frequently for us to track for a month the Group IDs read, write, etc of standard Tables of Type P,C,T. We would like be able to use this ability to Audit use of created Global Temporary Tables of Type G as well. This would...
    about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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