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Status Planned for future release
Workspace Db2 for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 21, 2024
Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit DB24ZOS-I-1339 Full EXPLAIN support for all types of trigger.

EXPLAIN(ONLY) should create no locks Merged

We did an rebind packages with EXPLAIN(ONLY) with an owner change and got into problems because rebind phase-in was not used. So there were a lot of locks which caused timeouts.

The owner change for EXPLAIN(ONLY) is needed for a vendor tool.

We think a rebind with EXPLAIN(ONLY) should never create locks nevertheless which parameters are used because we only want to fill the information in the required plan tables.

Otherwise it would be also helpful if EXPLAIN(ONLY) uses phase-in feature so that no locks for online applications are created.

Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)