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Db2 for z/OS

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Instrumentation to identify uncommitted catalog/directory resource holders

DB2 for z/OS indicates the ability to support online migration. We have some applications that are less well behaved than others regarding taking frequent commits. It is too difficult to identify the applications that would cause an online migrati...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

allow SELECT with LISTAGG function to always allow ORDER BY

I am using DB2 Version 12. function level 501 I have a simple SQL example I show my co-workers to show the power of new DB2 SQL function of LISTAGG SELECT IXCREATOR, IXNAME ,LISTAGG(ALL COLNAME,',') WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY COLSEQ) AS AL...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Delivered

Passphrase support for JDBC Type-2 Connection to DB2/zOS

System: Db2 z/OSActor: New Feature: Type-2 JCBC-Connection with passphrases support. In some cases we have to use Type-2 JDBC database connection along with passphrases. Actually, this feature is currently not supported as we tested following setu...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 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

Improve partial RTS externalization comunication to the user

Currently, during RTS externalization if the object being externalized is being accessed at one member of DSG via utility for example, the related member RTS information will now be skipped giving the false RTS view on the object. It is especially...
about 5 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

need SQL tuning component

Now, we are using DSM to manage 235 sets of Db2 databases, of which SQL tuning is a more commonly used function for our system administrators and DBAs. We often use the SQL tuning function to optimize the SQL statements running in the production e...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Support for JWT as authentication method in Db2 for z/OS

Applications running on other platforms are planning to use the technologies around JWT (JavaScript Web Token) for authentication where a JWT will be signed and by an issuer using a private key. When calling another application the JWT will be pro...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Support OR REPLACE option in Native SQL Procs

We would like the 'OR REPLACE' syntax that is available on the LUW Create Procedure statement for native SQL Procedures to be supported on DB2 for z/OS.
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Command to delete Active Logs dynamically while Db2 member is active

There is still the need to stop a Db2 member and run DSNJU003 to delete Active Logs out of BSDS datasets. This causes an outage and has bad implications on applications as well. This behavior does support 24*7. If the defined number of datasets ar...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered