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Search results: Db2 for z/OS

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z/OS sever does not return Arabic data if substr is used for LIKE predicate. String transformation is needed as part of proce

z/OS sever does not return Arabic data if substr is used for LIKE predicate. String transformation is needed as part of processing. Host: z10 – z/OS V1R11DB2 for z/OS version 8.xx (PUT level is current as site is in the process of migrating to D...
almost 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

JOBSTEP NAME PASSED TO DB2 ACCOUNTING TRACES FOR BATCH JOBS

IN the DB2 accounting trace it is not possible to see the step name for a jcl. that is seen as correlation name. So if the same program is called more than once in the same jcl , it is very hard to guess the step which calls the one with the highe...
about 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

allow REPLACE function to accept empty string

The "source-string" for the REPLACE function currently cannot be an empty string, it throws an error. But I can't see any logical or functional difficulty in just applying the replace logic: the "search-string" is not found, therefore the source-s...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Async lock request wait time in CF shows up in "Not Accounted" in the DB2 Accounting information

Because of approx 9 km distance between 2 data centers and also (in testing environment) non-optimal configuration of the CF setup, we get a log of ASYNC requests for LOCKs. As descibed in the PMR the time for this will not be accounted in relatab...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve precision of IFCID 199 times

Currently the two measures of average I/O delay in IFCID 199 (i.e. QW0199SV and QW0199AD) are only precise to one millisecond. We are about to move some critical Production DB2 tables and indexes to SSD (Solid State Disk), which means that these t...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration