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Db2 for z/OS

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Show DB2 Recovery progress status in the db2 master log

Improve the messaging in the db2 log in order to be able to have a better idea of the progress of a recovery and how long it might take. For instance, currently message DSNR048I is issued every 2 minutes during abort recovery. It would be very hel...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

RECOVER to A MIGRATED FLASHCOPY

We are in DB2 V10.We recovered a tablespace to a flashcopy. The flashcopy was migrated via HSM and the recover skipped to a previous copy (not migrated). The job returned return code = 04 with the message FLASHCOPY ....... FOR TABLESPACE DBHWCOPY....
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add EXPLAINABLE column to DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE

Currently, some unEXPLAINable statements are captured into DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE when user does EXPLAIN STMTCACHE ALL. e.g. UPDATE / DELETE statement with positional update:UPDATE T1 set C1=? WHERE CURRENT OF CURSOR001; It would be nice if the...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Lock hashing algorithms of DB2 and XES are incompatible. Leads to excessive False Contention and high IRLM CPU for GLM xfer

There is an anomaly between DB2 and XES hashing algorithms which means that a 4-byte DB2 (unique) lock hash value passed to XES may not be hashed to a unique value by XES unless the LTE size is set excessively high (1G). I understand that DB2 hash...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

"INDEX ONLY" index scan should be used instead of tablespace scan when it performs better.

We were analyzing the optimization of the following query: SELECT MAX(A.COL1) FROM MY_TABLE A WHERE A.COL2= ? WITH UR ; There is an index that exists for MY_TABLE that has a first column of COL1 and a second column of COL2. DB2 was using a tablesp...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSNTEP2 number of rows printed is incorrect

DSNTEP doesn't count correctly the number of rows printer after 999999 rowsIt should be extended to more digits
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SQLCODE IFI

The IFI interface is very useful for Performance analysis. But for RAS work it would be even better if any unusual SQL code was externalized in a new IFI record.
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Log offload task needs to be manually cancelled restarted after outage to tape

We are seeing situations when tape processing is down and a DB2 request to offload logs to tape is initiated using dynamic allocation, that offload task will hang and never be satisfied until the offload task is cancelled and re-driven manually. T...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Implement XQuery functions present in DB2 LUW but missing in DB2 for z/OS

Quite a lot of XQuery functions that are implemented in DB2 LUW, are missing in DB2 for z/OS. Many of them are very useful, and should be implemented in DB2 for z/OS as well. Here is the complete list (39 functions). We are specifically missing th...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Externalize performance t...

I have a performance trace running requesting IFCIDS 58 (END), 59 (FETCH), 65(OPEN), 66(CLOSE). I run the following Cobol program: ID DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. C011MAIN. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 77 FILLER PIC X(12)...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration