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Ensure that several messages put into MQ via DB2MQ.MQSEND within one Db2 UOW are received in correct order at the other side of the queue

Db2 is called by CICS. CICS is coordinator of the global UOW. Within this UOW there are two calls of DB2MQ.MQSEND to put message 1 and message 2 into a MQ queue in a specific order. MQPOLICY used for this DB2MQ.MQSEND calls is defined with SYNCPOI...
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Complete PROFILE support for SQL tuning ZPARMS

While modelling a production system it was noticed that the PROFILE support is not 100% up to date and compatible with the actual ZPARMs that the Db2 Optimizer uses. I opened a case TS019778440 and they said "Yes, it is missing, please open an AHA...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Change Load Backout YES delete log process

During execution of LOAD RESUME YES BACKOUT YES SHRLEVEL NONE LOG NO DISCARDS 1, if 1 duplicate row is funded, all rows loaded will be backed out, regardless if there was just 1 duplicate. DB2 call Data Manager back out all the other rows writing ...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Change Db2 Load And Db2 Reorg To Selectively Ignore KEEPDICTIONARY

Change Db2 Load and Db2 Reorg to ignore KEEPDICTIONARY if the tablespace part is currently compressed and* SYSTABLEPART.COMPRESS IN ('F','H') & SYSTABLEPART.COMPRESS <> SYSTABLEPART.COMPRESS_USED OR * SYSTABLEPART.COMPRESS = 'Y' & zP...
20 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Support REORG for DEFINE NO

I have heard, in various IBM presentations (Haakon at IDUG Valencia, John Lyle at CCDB2) talking about Db2 Vnext, the statement "no migration to vnext if you have 6 byte RBA/LRSN or non-UTS tablespaces". This if fine unless you happen to have old ...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Under review

DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL issues a message, TOTAL SYNC I/O DELAY FOR BP?? = ?????????? MILLISECONDS.

We are currently are running a bufferpool simulation in production. When I issue the command: -DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL(BP40) DETAIL(INTERVAL) The following message is issued: DSNB432I -DPP2 SIMULATED BUFFER POOL ACTIVITY - AVOIDABLE READ PAGE MISSES - ...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration
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Resolve a restriction that CACHE DYN STABILITY function can not use with CONCENTRATE WITH LITERALS option.

Customer environment Db2 V12 <- DRDA -> Db2connect/JDBC(IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ type 2) Server side.(JDBC Type2 is used) Windows server: - WebSphere BASE 9.0.0 (Windows2016) - Db2client / IBM Data Server Runtime Client V11.1...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Allow us to use the profile tables to set the ACCUMACC zparm more granular

At the present time we have ACCUMACC set to 20. We have had to set this to 1 for problem determination purposes. In our active system it causes issues with our SMF jobs when we have done this for even a short time. We would like the ability to use...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Enhance DSN1COMP to provide more information on LOB's

There is a need to have a greater handle on LOB columns with regard to their size and storage. At the moment the only way to analyse the lengths of the LOBs is through using expensive SQL with BIF LENGTH and SUBSTR. It really only possible to do s...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered

REORG with a new keyword should transfer the page set work to DFDSS

Why is the above idea useful? Sometimes you need to move page sets around due to altering the HLQ, due to removing extents etc. These actions do not require an unload and reload of the data, because it is external stuff out of DB2 scope. For small...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review