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Db2 for z/OS

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Granular grant-able authorization to allow explaining all statements stored in DSC

Currently there is a requirement to hold at least SQLADM authority to explain statements kept in DSC, and which were executed with a different SQLID. This is security exposure as for such basic action like statement explain it gives the user all t...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Use direct-row access for queries using the RID-function and multi-row fetch

Suppose that you have a query like this: SELECT * FROM table A WHERE RID(A) = 21206417921 This query should use direct-row-access and should quickly determine a result. This is true if you do not use a cursor with multi-row-fetch. If you use a cur...
1 day ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Add utility eventid to IFCID 23,24 and 25

The new utility tables have eventid, but this isn't in the utility audit ifcids, so by adding it, then gives easy matching between any utility audit table and the system utility tables Also the system utility table could have gaps due to data not ...
2 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Modify RQSTWLB behavior when JDBC connections use mismatched DDF alias and port combinations

When there are multiple DDF aliases using different ports, it is currently possible to connect to db2 using the wrong port and alias combination. Ideally this connection would terminate with an error instead of connecting, but that may be too sign...
about 1 hour ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Add time option for expensive trace

I am hearing customers are having issues or aren't wanting to execute expensive traces due to risk. How about adding a timer option to these types of traces so they will run and then automatically turn off to prevent issues and help adoption/confi...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Deposit some information about latch status in HVCOMMON to avoid Db2 abend

Db2 abended due to EOM in one of its threads (in this case an online REORG). The request is that some more information about thread status is saved in common storage (e.g. HVCOMMON) to help SSSC to cleanup the job and to avoid that it must take do...
about 12 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Deferred ALTERs can be materialized on a subset of partitions

We have a 2048 partitioned Tablespace and need to ALTER the keyranges. Afterwards a REORG on the complete object is needed. We want a piecemeal tactic for the REORG: All ALTERs are in SYSPENDINGDDL, and a REORG on partition level can materialize a...
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

SQL function LAG (and other passthrough OLAP functions) – implement natively Db2 Z !

SQL function LAG (and other passthrough OLAP functions) – implement natively Db2 Z ! Db2 Z provides some OLAP functions that are only available as passthrough functions that are only available via an “accelerator” https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-f...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Submitted

Add STMT_HASHID2 in IFCID 316

Can you add STMT_HASHID2 (referred in DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE) field to the IFCID 316 record? It would be very handy in identifying normalized SQL statement text(s).
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Complete PROFILE support for SQL tuning ZPARMS

While modelling a production system it was noticed that the PROFILE support is not 100% up to date and compatible with the actual ZPARMs that the Db2 Optimizer uses. I opened a case TS019778440 and they said "Yes, it is missing, please open an AHA...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

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