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Db2 for z/OS

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DB2 Autostats enhancement; create Runstats Profiles without COLGROUPs already covered by KEYCARD

AUTOSTATS creates RUNSTATS Profiles containing COLGROUPs which are already covered by KEYCARD. This leads to additional RUNSTATS activities and wastes resources.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 for z/OS Statistics Interval allow at 1 second

DB2 for z/OS Statistics trace interval minimum value is not granular enough for some diagnostic situations. Allowing it to be set a a more granular level would be helpful (lower interval).
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Replace unique NPI by PI

We need to replace non-partitioned unique indexes by partitioned indexes. This will be even more important when we start converting PBGs to PBRs in vNext. Already today you can create a new unique index. The problem is getting rid of the old NPI. ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Copy with option Changelimit and Template switching based on changed pages

Whe are using the TEMPLATE SWITCHING with a LIMIT 16 MB in a Copy with option CHANGELIMIT. The allocation of copies is made during the utilinit and is based on 10% of the HI-U-RBA and not on the pages to be copied. In this way some very large copi...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create Trigger - allow following to be changed ARCHIVESENSITIVE, BUSTIMESENSITIVE, SYSTIMESENSITIVE

Allow this to be changed when creating basic trigger. ARCHIVESENSITIVE BUSTIMESENSITIVE SYSTIMESENSITIVE
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide possibility to alter a COLUMN from NOT NULL to NULL and vice versa

A table was defined with COLUMN A NOT NULL but it is not posssible to remove the NOT NULL clause afterwards!
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow TAPEUNITS to use virtual tape drives

The COPY utility utilizing templates allows for TAPEUNITS(0) to let COPY decide the appropriate number of physical tape drives to use. If all tape drives are virtual, copy will only use one tape drive. This requires hard coding TAPEUNITS(n) to get...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

FR583: Enhance IFCID 316 to capture stats of UDFs as well

When the following dynamic SQL query is issued, processing the query involves processing a UDF. This works fine. However, when looking at SQL dynamic statements stats in a DB2 monitor, which retrieves IFCID 316 data from DB2, the data provided is ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

FR581: Enable pushdown and transitive closure for LIKE with parameter markers to table expressions

As part of SAP Core Data Services (CDS), SAP supports 'type as you search' capability when entering values in panels. As part of this processing, they issue the following query on a view which includes a UNION clause. The access path with DB2 is n...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DSNHDECP usage

The DSNHDECP modules is currently used in our shop and needs to be created for every DB2 subsystem, or data sharing group. This means that we need to create individual SDSNEXIT libraries for each subsystem. We used to have one SDSNEXIT which held ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration