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Db2 for z/OS

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Add new parameter for REORG to designate different access behavior when REORG is in LOG/SWITCH phase

Let's say we have zparm IRLMRWT=15, and we have large tablespace REORG with SHRLEVEL(CHANGE) or (REFERENCE), the elapse time of LOG/SWITCH phase is greater than 15 seconds, this causes a lot of online workload timeout with -911. At that time the t...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create zparm item to change "VOLATILE" table default for implicit create table

Due to our huge DW/Analytics environment in DB2 z we have a lot of tables created by users without details about tablespace and database, so these tables are created with default values of DB2. However, the NOT VOLATILE is default value and can no...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Db2 member must stay up during SCA rebuild failure, for reliability

see issue TS002525622: Db2 DS member down during rebuild SCA ABEND=S04F During rolling disaster tests, we noticed that during a SCA rebuild structure failure, the db2 who owns the rebuild also went down. This behaviour seems to contradict with...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Use of identify for database connections

When connecting to multiples databases with the "same" user, it is necessary to define the same user for each connection. But, when the password is changed for the user, then it is necessary to change the password for each connection. This could b...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Create zparm item to change locksize default for implicit create table

Ibm, Due to our huge DW/Analytics environment in DB2 z we have a lot of tables created by users without details about tablespace and database, so these tables are created with default values of DB2. However, the locksize default is "ROW" and can n...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Plan Stability - Option to restabilize an invalidated query missing

We've got several SQL queries stabilized with dynamic plan stability. Reason is to prevent them from getting a bad accesspath. After operations like "ALTER TABLE ... ROTATE PARTITION..." the query is flagged to valid N in SYSIBM.SYSDYNQRY. Than we...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

the SYSPACKAGE's column "lastused" needs to update more frequently

Hi IBM, As you see below in description of "lastused" column on SYSIBM.SYSPACKAGE, the updated must be done "whenever" the package is used but it's not true, so due to this doubt that we have when we saw that this column was not updated after pack...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DSNRLMTxx resource limit tables need column for WLM Reporting Group

The DSNRLMTxx resource limit tables aremissing column for WLM Reporting Group. This would allow for resource consumption to be managed at the WLM Reporting Group level (rather than at the userid level, for instance. As WLM is the best method of ma...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

I would like an easy way to validate that a bound query is used to hint a dynamic query

Today, it is easy to validate that a bound query is used as a hint to a static query. After all, there is a column updated in PLAN_TABLE when the package is bound that exploits the bound query. But, it becomes difficult to know if a dynamic query...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Index on RTS versioned History tables

In our environment, we retain the RTS history data for 1 year. Tables are going to grow large due to the busy environment we have.. We would need secondary indexes on these tables. Right now there is none. Since its a years data to analyze the rat...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration