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Db2 for z/OS

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Generate async IFCID 317 with async IFCID 316

When DB2 writes an asynchronous IFCID 316 record, there is no way to obtain the complete SQL statement text because it is no longer in the dynamic statement cache. We need for DB2 to make the SQL statement text available in an asynchrounous IFCID ...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

keeping track of CFIGIN input in DSNTIJRT job.

You are keeping track of CFIGIN input manually now. One DB2 supplied stored procedure has been added during maintenance How can you migrate to a new version of DB2 and make sure you are current? clist developer already refrenced our request and he...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Prevent read/write (RW) access as part of CREATE TABLE

Add a clause on CREATE TABLE that controls what state the table(space) is in immediately after the creation - UT,RO or RW (default)
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance DISPLAY GROUPBUFFERPOOL output

Enhance DISPLAY GROUPBUFFERPOOL output to display both the current and the high-water-mark number of updated data pages in a global buffer pool. Since the AUTOALTER facility may change the number of pages in the buffer, this new information should...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IFCID 401 records should not be lost at DB2 STOP

DB2 10 gives the abilty to track statement level monitoring in the new IFCID 401 etc. These can be read by users using IFI but users not keep on this can let DB2 send the IFCID to SMF or GTF when package is ejected from the EDM-pool. However when ...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide DISPLAY command option to generate XML

The various DISPLAY commands in DB2 return a lot of useful data. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to store the output in a DB2 table. If every DISPLAY command came with an option that returned the output in loadable XML format, we could store t...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add columns to the RTS tables

The two real-time Statistics tables in the DB2 catalogue have lots of useful data. But they would much more useful if they had some additional columns: SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACESTATS#1 #Times row was updated since defined.#2 #Times row was updated sinc...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IFCID support for DISPLAY GROUP command

IFCID support for DISPLAY GROUP command
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB5T DB2:AFS:DB2 Message ==> DSNT234I

Being able to do a REBIND PACKAGE collection.* without a FLAG option and NOT receive DB5T DB2:AFS:DB2 Message ==> DSNT234I-DB5T MESSAGE LIMIT EXCEEDED
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Option to disable implicit database creation

A new Zparm which disables the possibility to create the implicit created databases which was implemented in DB2 9.Database name e.g. DSN00001
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration