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Db2 for z/OS

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Call a Cobol program via DB2 stored procedure (Case TS005323974)

A cobol program can be called as routine from another cobol program or via a cobol stored procedure called by a java program In this second case, the program use a larger number of getpages, on tablespace buffer pool than in the first The problem ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

More granular enforcement SSL encryption for DRDA and Native Db2 z/OS REST applications.

In a recent VA scan of one of our systems one of our DB2 subsystems were flagged due to basic authentication being made available for HTTP traffic. In looking into this we found that if you point a browser at a DB2 subsystems non-encrypted DRDA po...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

IPCS DSN1PRNT command via batch

this is related to cases TS005562456 and TS005376027 we are able to issue the following IPCS command online: ipcs verbx dsn1prnt 'page(1515E9B4000,E3),format' but it fails with IPCS batch ipcs verbx dsn1prnt commands like this should also work wit...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Alias for REST Services

Db2 REST services, with versioning enabled, sets the first service created via the BIND SERVICE command to be the default service. at this stage the URL and the REST service are in sync and the URL need not reference the version as DB2 will invoke...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered

Enabling DAE to supress flood of duplicate Db2 dumps in all situations

Reoccuring Db2 dumps should be supressed by DAE. In certain situations DAE is not able to supress dumps, which are part of a flood of Db2 dumps. This was observed in the second level of recovery from a Db2 abend. In our case the Db2 recovery routi...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Choose statement concentration in JDBC on a per-statement level

Statement concentration is a good thing if you have software that is not well written and uses literals where it should use parameter markers. However, there are cases where using a literal helps the optimizer make a better decision. Statement con...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Allow application to decide whether lock escalation should occur

Db2 for LUW has an instance-wide configuration parameter DB2_AVOID_LOCK_ESCALATION that controls whether lock escalations occur or applications receive an SQL error. It would be good to have a similar feature in Db2 for z/OS -- of course, not sub...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Caching of plan authorization

When using Db2 external security using SAF (RACF), Db2 does not cache authorization information for plans. This is a different behaviour than for packages and routines, that have their authorization information cached. 
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Make parent business temporal table updatable

Business temporal tables that are parent table in referential integrity relationship cannot be updated in a way that reflects the time dimension of the data. As described in the attached document there is no way to change any column value from a s...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Capture Connection Security Type in SMF accounting data

This would allow to determine the security type (i.g., Kerberos or not) and track Kerberos adoption based on individual transactions. Unfortunately, the IFCID 319 data cannot be correlated with the specific transactions.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered