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Db2 for z/OS

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Change Image Copy To Avoid Opening Db2 Data Sets When Making Conditional Image Copies

Our IBM Image Copy jobs are driving 10s of thousands of Db2 data set opens while doing conditional image copies. During our daily batch cycle the vast majority of the data set opens are not needed as there was no activity for the objects stored in...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Reduce minimum value for Zparm MAXCONQW from 5 to 0

Our team is wanting to make use of MAXCONQN/MAXCONQW zparms, and they are wanting to have as much control of the values of these zparms as possible. The minimum value of MAXCONQW is 5 seconds, but we are wanting to have values between 0 and 5 for ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Avoid impact from query sort usage on more important online transactions workload

Nowadays usage of Sortworks by a single thread is limited by MAXTEMPS or the size of the overall available sortworks if MAXTEMPS is zero. Most time MAXTEMPS works well to protect our regular business against single queries with a lot of sort amoun...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

remove STOP DATABASE SPACENAM for ALTER TABLESPACE USING STOGROUP

Currently STOP DATABASE SPACENAM is a prerequisite of ALTER TABLESPACE USING STOGROUP We wish DB2 can remove this restriction.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

The sample programs should support the DECFLOAT data type.

I am trying to use DSNTIAUL to unload a table with a DECFLOAT data type. I am encountering a failure. I would really like for the sample programs to support the DECFLOAT data type.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to change APPEND for tables for xml column

For tables that implicitly created for XML columns, the APPEND is inherited from the base table. It is only correct for the CREATE statement. Altering the base table and change the APPEND value does not change in the xml table. Try to alter t...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

static SQL with DGTT and REOPT(ALWAYS) should be traced by IFCID 401

We realized that not all static SQLs are captured by DB2 to be put into IFI buffers (IFCID 401) I'm referring to static SQL related to packages bound with REOPT(ALWAYS) and DGTTs statements. For REOPT(ALWAYS) packages, only statements not affec...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Full Column Match and I1 Access on SQL with Correlated Sub-Queries Containing Column Expressions and Supporting IoE

Some queries with column expressions - DATE(A1.EFCTV_TS) <= DATE('04/05/2020') for example, and an Index on Expression to support the expression are achieving I1 access while others are not. It appears this is because of how the query is curren...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DSN1COPY to support LOB INLINE COPY as input

More than 80% of our data consist of LOB data. In case of drop recovery we depend on utilities such as DSN1COPY. Without this feature provided DSN1COPY cannot be used for drop recovery when we have to use a LOB INLINE COPY as input.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

"DBRM load module cross-reference feature" be incorporate into Db2 Administration Tool

As of April 30th, of 2020, IBM Db2 Bind Manager got  'end of service' and would not be supported anymore. Some Bind Manager Function were integrated to the IBM Db2 Administration Tool v12.1 but "DBRM load module cross-reference feature" was not i...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration