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Db2 for z/OS

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PIECESIZE-limitation for indexes

MR121710128 GGDB210014
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Multi-Row Fetch/Insert - COBOL Programming Modell

Customer addressed to IBM that the use of DB2 Multi-Row Fetch/Insert is not well accepted by the developers since it increases the programming complexity a lot and is not ease to use in COBOL. Initial discussions pointed to the already addressed "...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

We want to cancel all Db2 THREADS with one command in a Db2 Datasharing Member.

Today we must cancel any single thread. During a Db2 migration or shutdown you must cancel the Db2 threads to stop Db2.
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SQLCODE -413: Add an ID of Column/Host-Variable

Currently SQLCODE -413 looks like this: DSNT408I SQLCODE = -413, ERROR: OVERFLOW OR UNDERFLOW OCCURRED DURING NUMERIC DATA TYPE CONVERSIONDSNT418I SQLSTATE = 22003 SQLSTATE RETURN CODE DSNT415I SQLERRP = DSNTZEXE SQL PROCEDURE DETECTING ERROR This...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Track SHRLEVEL info in Utilities history

In Db2 13 utility execution can be recorded in one or two utilities history tables. We are struggling to find all utility executions ran with SHRLEVEL NONE to tell the applications to change their parameters to avoid problems. It is very hard to f...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Better RMF API support in Db2 stats collection

Db2 can extract z/OS - LPAR related info from RMF when ZOSMETRICS ZPARM is enabled. However for this to work in a sysplex environment it is required that EVERY member in the sysplex has the Db2 SDSNLINK library in the linklist , regardless of whet...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Distributed Thread cancelled due to Idle Thread Timeout or MONITOR IDLE THREADS not writing record to SYS1.LOGREC

We noticed that every DB2 distributed thread that is cancelled because: 1) Idle thread timeout value that is specified by Db2 subsystem parameter IDTHTOIN in macro DSN6FAC is exceeded; or 2) ATTRIBUTE2 value in a row with KEYWORD value MO...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improving latch contention in Db2 z/OS

DB2 workloads run at a priority that is related to their origin (may it be batch, IMS, DDF, …) and according to WLM service class definitions. In high system utilization scenarios, or due to workloads running in a WLM service class with a resource...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add catalog information when a Compression Dictionary was created

The compression dictionary date created is currently not available to help identify the age of the dictionary. The age would also help to identify dictionaries create before upgrading to the latest release.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Option to dictate behaviour regarding deadlock victim selected on deadlocks involving DDL ALTERs

In true 24*7 production environments there is an increasing expectation that simple(on the face of it) DDL changes should be able to break-in concurrent with application workload. In the case of high-arrival rate transactions even at the quietest ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration