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Db2 for z/OS

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ENABLE IRLM TO SUPPORT LONG NAMES IN DSNT375I/DSNT376I MESSAGES

this RFE would be similar to the one included on the mentioned Apar PH26713, that is -> ENABLE IRLM TO SUPPORT LONG NAMES IN DSNT375I/DSNT376I MESSAGES
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add support for IPL Boost on RLF

When using a z15 with IPL Boost feature enabled, Db2 RLF will cause problems after IPL Boost ends because it kills requests too soon and you get unexpected -905 SQL codes. The problem appears because RLF only reads machine informations at startup ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Delivered

Enable DSN1COMP to work on compressed tablespace data

We want DSN1COMP to be able to work with compressed table data. These days we've got an usecase, where we needed to check, if a new compression dictionary will saves us some MB/GB in a nearly completly full tablespace. Because of his size, we were...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Delivered

DB2 and WLM MAXSPAS

We run in production DB2 system some SQL UPDATE statements.Each statement has a lot of references to the same UDF in the SQL WHERE clause: UPDATE xx.tablename SET col1 = 'xx' WHERE col2 = xx.UDF_name(CHAR('2011-11-11-08.15.45.500000')) OR col2 = x...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Decrease IFCID 402 volume.

We have a mutual customer that is experiencing a high number of IFCID 402 records. They opened a query with IBM and was told, “ any connection that falls under that filtering scope will have a statistics information block which will get written ou...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Provide functionality to free inactive copies of native REST service packages

Native REST services in Db2 system have packages. There can also exist inactive copies (original and previous copies - COPYID 1 and 2) of these REST service packages - coming out of PLANMGMT. Problem: Current FREE SERVICE command implementation (c...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Delivered

EVENTID in DIS UTIL output

When running a utility in Db2 13 it is recorded in table SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES with an EVENTID. If the utility execution stops, causes or has problems it would be of great help if we colud see the EVENTID in the output from command DIS UTIL. This wa...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Owner Type option when Binding with a Role

We have attempted to convert our DBA's to utilize Role based security instead of granting direct access to user-specific ID's in order to comply with certain audit standards. The one limitation keeping us from utilizing role based admin security i...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

MODIFY RECOVERY NOCOPYPEND Option

MR0803062516 DBDB2D/S05009 Expand the MODIFY-UTILITY with a NOCOPYPEND-option, which suppresses the COPYPEND-exception.
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

REBIND timeout option

We would like to request an enhancement to the REBIND command, to be able to specify a time or timeout parm to govern how log REBIND will wait.We're aware of the DB2 11 Bind Concurrency feature with PKGREL_COMMIT(YES)We're also aware of the REBIND...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered