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Db2 for z/OS

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Class 2 In-DB2 CPU times are often zero

With DB2's current IFI implementation, class 2 times are updated when a class 2 event occurs. Consequently, when IFCID 148 is requested for a thread that is In-DB2, no CPU times can be seen until the SQL statement ends. IFCID 148 must reflect the ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Native SP needs to be dropped and recreate for SQL TABLE UDF changes

When SQL TABLE UDF is created and used by Native Mode SPs and the SQL logic in the function needs to be changed, the native SPs needed to be dropped and recreated for the logic to take effect.
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Reset an invalidated statement level optimization hint

If a statement level optimization hint was invalidated for whatever reason one has to repeat the whole process to get the same hint again.
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Convert PBR tablespace to PBG without an outage

Right now we have situations come up where applications and DBAs have created partition by range (PBR) tables, and there is a need later on to convert these to partition by growth (PBG). Currently there is no way to do this without dropping the ob...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

SQL performance is bad after V10 migrate.

Our customer migrated DB2 V10(NFM) from V8(NFM).In particular query,processing time took one minute in the case of DB2 V8,but DB2 V10 increased to 11 minutes. The VIEW has been used by the customer LEFT OUTER JOIN 50 times near internally.As a res...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Auditpolicy OBJMAINT to audit 'create / alter / drop' for views

Please add view-support for Auditpolicy OBJMAINT, which is missing as of today.
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance Auditpolicy OBJMA...

Please enhance auditpolicy OBJMAINT to support auditing for object creates.
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance Auditpolicy OBJMAINT to audit activities for objects created after trace has been started

Please enhance auditpolicy OBJMAINT to audit objects too, which were created after trace start.
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Default value for DECLARED GLOBAL TEMPORARY Table

Current default for DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE is ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS. We would like to have the ability to change this via a zparm to ON COMMIT DROP TABLE so that we maximize our thread resuse.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

"Index on expression" should be used more

By implementing an "index on expression", a DBA has the ability to tune many queries that are written poorly without changing the query. This is very useful and allows a DBA to rapidly respond to a performance problem. However, there are some time...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration