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Db2 for z/OS

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Deadlock need to avoid for ALTER TABLE JOB

ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN job should be able to break-in RTS process. Currently, the deadlock may happen between ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN job and CORRELATION-ID=014.RTSTST00. We open CASE TS011962039 for the deadlock. From user point of view, the f...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Delivered

Allow statement level hints on SQL in stored procedure packages

It is a huge pain to hint specific statements contained within stored procedure packages. Currently you will get this message if trying to bind query for a statement level hint on a procedure package: DSNT281I -DBP1 BIND QUERY FOR QUERYNO = 59988 ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered

EVENTID in DIS UTIL output

When running a utility in Db2 13 it is recorded in table SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES with an EVENTID. If the utility execution stops, causes or has problems it would be of great help if we colud see the EVENTID in the output from command DIS UTIL. This wa...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

DB2 z/OS - Message id - DSNJ110E - Additional alerts for active log monitoring and highlighted new message id when DB2 logging was suspended

We had a major incident due to suspended logging for one of the critical customer. One of the critical production DB2 subsystem logging was suspended , caused by stalled archive log offloading process due to insufficient storage space on archive...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 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

Call a Cobol program via DB2 stored procedure (Case TS005323974)

A cobol program can be called as routine from another cobol program or via a cobol stored procedure called by a java program In this second case, the program use a larger number of getpages, on tablespace buffer pool than in the first The problem ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

More granular enforcement SSL encryption for DRDA and Native Db2 z/OS REST applications.

In a recent VA scan of one of our systems one of our DB2 subsystems were flagged due to basic authentication being made available for HTTP traffic. In looking into this we found that if you point a browser at a DB2 subsystems non-encrypted DRDA po...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Client Application Name (QMDAAPPL from IFCID 0003) used in column RLFEUAN from SYSIBM.DSNRLMTxx tables to governor distributed applications

We would like to use table SYSIBM.DSNRLMTxx (SYSIBM.DSNRLMT01) in order to avoid that certain applications, coming from distributed environment and reaching Db2 for z/OS through DDF, can execute SQL statements. We’d like to completely block these ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 9 Delivered

IPCS DSN1PRNT command via batch

this is related to cases TS005562456 and TS005376027 we are able to issue the following IPCS command online: ipcs verbx dsn1prnt 'page(1515E9B4000,E3),format' but it fails with IPCS batch ipcs verbx dsn1prnt commands like this should also work wit...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Alias for REST Services

Db2 REST services, with versioning enabled, sets the first service created via the BIND SERVICE command to be the default service. at this stage the URL and the REST service are in sync and the URL need not reference the version as DB2 will invoke...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered