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Workload Management

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Review automatic prefetch

This IDEA it to request a more dynamic management of PREFETCHSIZE when it is set to AUTOMATIC. The documentation states: "The database updates the prefetch size automatically whenever the number of containers in a table space changes (following su...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Workload Management 2 Not under consideration

WLM threshold for used log space

We need an activity threshold to trigger an action whenever a specific activity consumes more than a given amount of transaction log space. I know that there is already some control mechanism by using DB CFG parameters MAX_LOG and NUM_LOG_SPAN , b...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

Mechanism to identify a workload and adjust memory values

Workloads can be different in a database, executed at different times. When the STMM is active, and a workload (let's say A) runs for several hours, then the memory will be fine adjuted for the workload at the end of the execution. However, for th...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

Lowering the limit for ACTIVITYTOTALTIME and UOWTOTALTIME

We should be able to trap the transaction that spent more than 10 seconds with a threshold. Can we change the low limit of the parameter ACTIVITYTOTALTIME and UOWTOTALTIME to allow a magnitude of milli second.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

WLM thresholds and compound expressions

I would like WLM thresholds to have compound expressions.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

SP monitoring

Make monitoring/control of SP via WLM easier.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

Facility to monitor and control Accelerated threads

need for monitoring and controlling accelerated threads like is currently available with db2 threads using RLF
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Db2 WLM to enable it to prioritize access to physical I/O

We have a Db2 AESE 11.1 fp4a mixed use (but no column tables) data warehouse on an AIX 7.2 LPAR that is limited to 75K IOPS by NetApp. When the threshold is met, high priority OLTP queries submitted by our 1000 retail store POS systems can hang in...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

WLM monitor and control total private sortheap usage

Concurrent private sortheap heavy queries run out of system memory and cause systems reboot. ISAS 7700 environment with DB2 v10.1 FP4 on AIX. There are 16 physical nodes running 122 database partitions. The catalog node and coordinator are on one ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration