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Search results: Db2 for z/OS

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Allow multiple ALTER PART nnn VALUES clauses in one ALTER TABLE stmt instead of SQLcode -637 error

Requirement to alter many partition limit key values for a PBR tablespace. New values come from external source so REORG REBALANCE is not suitable. With index-based partitioning it is possible to alter multiple partition limit keys in a single AL...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Send IFCID 317 data to SMF when stmts leaves cache

There is currently no way to get the text of a dynamic SQL statement when it leaves the cache. If one has IFCID 316 turned on, one can collect the SQL usage metrics in SMF, but not the text. One can get the statement text if one uses the EXPLAIN s...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow control of bufferpool selection on implicit tablespace create

Currently if you issue a CREATE TABLE and just specify a DATABASE, an implicit tablespace is created. It only uses the default bufferpool set at installation, panel DSNTIP1. Since the database is known, the default bufferpool specified for the dat...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

RTS history table outside DSNDB06

With DB2 12 new function features, IBM added RTS temporal history option. This is an excellent option, considering we used to perform that manually. Unloading and reloading the STATS into a history table. The new option, creates 2 new tables with ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Remove the OBID limitations in the workfile database

Aapplication threads that perform OPEN / FETCH / CLOSE many many times in a loop without performing a COMMIT can exhaust the OBID limit and suffer SQLCODE -497 From a recent SR....... We see in the dump a SELECT statement using insensitive scrolla...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add more criteria for MONITOR CONNECTIONS in DB2 PROFILE tables

Currently the DB2 PROFILE table only allows LOCATION as the selection criteria with the MONITOR CONNECTIONS keyword. We would like to restrict the number of connections a particular application can open, but the connections can: 1) come via a shar...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

assigning Queryno in Native SP SQLs

Hi,Native Stored Procedure SQLs have no Queryno assigned in Plan_table. All SQLs appear as queryno 1 , no matter how many of them specified in SP. It creates inconvenience in researching access path for SQL statement , as well as impossible to ass...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Profile-Table: Enable col...

Enable collection-id setting on server site to handle/use APPLCOMPAT (after Function Level Activation) in Profile-Tables. As of today the collection has to be set on remote site and can not be set/controlled on server site.
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Externalizing RTS while ts states in UTRW

While Shrlevel Change Load does not externalize rts information, we are using ACCESS DB... MODE(STATS) before loading that table to the IDAA box. As we know ACCEL_LOAD_TABLE procedure is doing the same thing, but that command is not working when t...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CREATE or REPLACE VIEW

After a DROP Table the view still exists, but it will only be invalidated;when the base-table is re-created any references to view will re-validated. Privileges for the View are still valid. This mechanism already works for DB2 for LUW where one c...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration