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Db2 for z/OS

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Add metrics to distinguish between a real active DBAT and a "cached" DBAT if High Performance DBAT is used

If High Performance DBAT is activated there is no flag in -DIS THREAD or in IFCIDs to distinguish between a real active DBAT (processing work) or a "chached" DBAT waiting for work. In a high volume environment as in our shop, it is critical to ide...
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

High number of LOCK reqeusts against one LOCK1 structure need relief

We have a very high volume of lock requests against LOCK1 CF structure. This number increases month by month. Of course, the LOCK1 structure does not scale infinitely, therefore we need a relief here.
4 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

-DISPLAY PROCEDURE - Show All Stored Procedure Types

Show Native Stored Procedures in -DIS PROC regardless of DEBUG mode. The existing limitation becomes a monitoring showstopper as more and more Native SQL SPs are utilized in Production.
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

RUNSTATS TABLESPACE on one TS partition scans all partitions of partitioned indexes

We encountered that the RUNSTATS on one TABLESPACE partition via RUNSTATS TABLESPACE ... PART or via LISTDEF INCLUDE TABLESPACE ... PARTLEVEL scans all partitions of a partitioned index. Therefore the runtime and the zIIP time of the jobs are extr...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Improve auditing possibilities

As Db2 for z/OS users, we want to use the AUDIT POLICY functionality to support internal and external auditors and provide the proof of proper allowed access to Db2 z/OS objects, especially in the form of SQL queries using input host variables (“f...
14 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Blocking Db2 connections to reduce the DSNL030I message flooding.

PTF delivery by IDEA DB24ZOS-I-1342 has already included the reduction of the DSNL030I message, it is working well for messages with REASON=00F3008* but the PTF does not include messages with REASON=00D30113 (invalid RACF ID), so these messages st...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Reduce messages for 00F30086 and others

Reduce messages for 00F30086 and others We have corporate policy affecting security on usage from a userID. ID are SUSPENDED for inactivity after 100 days, and DELETED after 500 days. Since applications may be stable and not used in all ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Db2 Developer Extension - Native Stored Procedure (NSP) edit in place, run and deploy from catalog listing

Currently to edit a native stored procedure, you have to make a copy of it and put it in a new file. We would like it to work like Data Studio where you can display the stored procedure in Data Source Explorer, right click and open with routine ed...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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...
20 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Usage of Reoptimization for remote applications with DB2 Profiles

In many access path issues for applications with remote dynamic SQL statements reoptimization techniques (similar to the REOPT(ONCE/AUTO/ALWAYS) BIND Option for Db2 packages) controlled by Db2 profiles should be a performance benefit
14 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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