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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Db2 for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 15, 2018

Deadlock between 2 Inserts because of Pseudo Deletes

We recently ran into deadlocks issue while doing QA tests for a major application delivery, our DB2 traces revealed that the deadlocks were always between 2 inserts, what we did not understand was why there was a S lock (on a ROW/PAGE) in deadlock with the X lock of the Insert. We raised PMR#42573,057,649, which was escalated to IBM DB2 Lab, who concluded that this deadlock was a result of pseudo deleted entries, but DB2 was doing as designed. Our developers are currently in the process 'rectuanltly' for a code change (simply speaking - to use update, instead of deletes+inserts, which should be pretty common in the insdustry). However, IBM DB2 Lab admitted that this deadlock problems might be a design issue, and advised me to raise a RFE. this is the reason for this RFE.