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Db2 for z/OS

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256 VLDB2012 - DB2 command enhancement -DISPLAY UTILITY

DB2 commands need to be improved in many aspects to provide additional usability, functionality and detail. -DISPLAY UTILITY DETAIL would provide additional diagnostic information about impacted objects e.g. DATABASE/TABLESPACE/PARTITION and/or TA...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Reduce REBIND phase-in wait time

REBIND phase-in only occurs once IRLMRWT (RESOURCE TIMEOUT ZPARM) is reached if the package remains used, therefore new package executions will be delayed until IRLMRWT is reached. This wait time should be reduced to benefit from this feature on s...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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

TCP/IP SERVICES AVAILABLE for SECPORT

Startup messages when DB2 is brought up will display the status of the standard DRDA DDF port via the DSNL519I message:DSNL519I -DXXX DSNLILNR TCP/IP SERVICES AVAILABLE 567 FOR DOMAIN domain.com AND PORT 999. DB2 does not display an equivalent mes...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enable usability for Native DDF Rest Services (e.g. APPLCOMPAT, Version,..)

Please support following enhancements for usability reasons for Native DDF REST Services: (1) APPLCOMPAT(2) enable Package Versioning(3) Switch between the versions (4) Deploy Native DDF Rest Services to a remote DB2 system
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Dynamic delete (or change) active logs in BSDS

Dynamic delete (or change) active logs in BSDS
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Reset and Collect new statistics in one go

We sometimes need to reset the old statistics in regards to access path selection.This is possible by RUNSTATS ... RESET ACCESSPATH. But in some cases the new RUNSTATS run long enough so that DYNAMIC SQL statements can slip into this timegap.Hence...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Enhance SPT01: max partition to more than 1, and Sysadm can amend the PART Size from 64gb to 32gb .

The Tablespace is in VSAM-E format with 252 Extends in already 32Gb size. It cannot create the 2nd Partition .Because the max partition of SPT01 is 1 and the partition size is 64gb. When application sharing the testing environment of UT, ST, SIT ,...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Allow for 16 IFI trace outputs to run concurrently

When a program starts a trace that is to go to destination OPX, there are currently only 8 of these that can be run at a time. This can be somewhat constraining (and has at times caused us some issues). Could this limit be bumped to 16 with the de...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow capability to ALTER the UPDATES column of SYSCOLUMNS

DB2 10 for z/OS eliminates the PARTKEYU system parameter and always behaves as if PARTKEYU was set to YES. However, tables created in DB2 for z/OS Version 5 and earlier can not take advantage of this capability unless the tables are dropped and re...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered