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Db2 for z/OS

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Remove active trace limit of 32

Today there is a limit of 32 active traces within a db2 member. But we have the need to start more..
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Decrease IFCID 402 volume.

We have a mutual customer that is experiencing a high number of IFCID 402 records. They opened a query with IBM and was told, “ any connection that falls under that filtering scope will have a statistics information block which will get written ou...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

BIND Package command to support mixed case names

DB2 for z/OS does not support the mixed case package names on the COPY or DEPLOY options of the Bind Package command. If I submit the same job with the package name enclosed in double quotes, I get this:BIND PACKAGE(UPPERCOLL1) QUAL(TS5781) OWNER(...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow Db2 z/OS REORG with NOCHECKPEND

Customer is using the REORG utility to cull or reduce rows from a table. However, if the table in questions has RI relationships with other tables, these related tables may go into a CHECK PENDING state. If the REORG can be run with a NOCHECKPEND ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

SQL-based hint capability

As we all know are not all access paths optimal, sometimes the optimizer makes a wrong assumptions are maybe all necessary stats are not always available. Therefore it would be beneficial to have an SQL-based syntax, e.g. as a common table express...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

High logging volume on SYSUTILX during utilities execution

Swiss Re observe up to 50% of the log volume is written for SYSUTILX, which is generally updated on phase changes across utilityexecutions, as well as during checkpoint/commit interval. A deeper analysis shows:- Most of the records being logged co...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

ENABLE IRLM TO SUPPORT LONG NAMES IN DSNT375I/DSNT376I MESSAGES

this RFE would be similar to the one included on the mentioned Apar PH26713, that is -> ENABLE IRLM TO SUPPORT LONG NAMES IN DSNT375I/DSNT376I MESSAGES
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add support for IPL Boost on RLF

When using a z15 with IPL Boost feature enabled, Db2 RLF will cause problems after IPL Boost ends because it kills requests too soon and you get unexpected -905 SQL codes. The problem appears because RLF only reads machine informations at startup ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Delivered

Enable DSN1COMP to work on compressed tablespace data

We want DSN1COMP to be able to work with compressed table data. These days we've got an usecase, where we needed to check, if a new compression dictionary will saves us some MB/GB in a nearly completly full tablespace. Because of his size, we were...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Delivered

Provide functionality to free inactive copies of native REST service packages

Native REST services in Db2 system have packages. There can also exist inactive copies (original and previous copies - COPYID 1 and 2) of these REST service packages - coming out of PLANMGMT. Problem: Current FREE SERVICE command implementation (c...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Delivered