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Search results: Db2 for z/OS

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message to indicate a table lock escalation is being attempted

To indicate a table lock escalation is being attempted, either through DSNI031I or via a new message.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

COPY UTILITY enhancement

Actually:Incremental image copies are not allowed when:- No full image copies exist for the table space or data set that is being copied-After a successful LOAD or REORG operation, unless an inline copy was made during the LOAD or REORG job.Add a ...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Bypass Package BIND/REBIND Locks for EXPLAIN(ONLY)

We have an analysis tool that we use to analyze potential changes in access paths. For timeliness of analysis our need is to use this tool during the business day. The tool uses EXPLAIN(ONLY) as a BIND parameter. Based on system workload, we exper...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

SQL Data Insights should show outliers relative to all rows in the table

Currently the AI_SIMILARITY function only shows outliers with respect to a specific entity in the table. There should be a way to determine outliers taking into account all rows in the table. This would be benificial in the case of fraud detection...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Externalise the table name from the "as locator" clause in a create external procedure statement.

This is required to reverse engineer DDL for external stored procedures
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to work with page size other than 16K for xml tablespace

Today, xml table space must work with page size of 16K. We are asking the ability for all pagesizes, especially 32k to make the i/o more efficient.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

LOAD Replace improvement for RI tables

We had a Db2 DDL change where a new table "b" was created with a RI constraint to a parent table "a" which was also modified (DROP/CREATE). Table "a" had several rows which were unloaded before the change and loaded back after the DDL changes (LOA...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Data-partitioned secondary index (dpsi) support for row change timestamp columns

To identify which rows of a table have changed in specified time interval we are using timestamp columns. The values of these columns are set via the "GENERATED BY DEFAULT FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP" clause. To optimize query p...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Use permanent database for DSNTRVFY rather than implicit database

Each time we run DSNTIJRV, the DSNTRVFY program creates the DSNTRVFY.VALIDATION_TABLE in an implicitly-created database, which the process then leaves hanging around with no objects in it. Both empty databases and implicitly-created databases viol...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide value for MAXTEMPS parm in percentage of total dasd space and create 2 separated options for sort and dgtt workfiles

The introduction of new parameter MAXTEMPS, to avoid the situation where one task monopolize all temporary tablespaces space, with only an absolute space value as an option leaks flexibility. 1) We need to have two parameters, one for sort areas a...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration