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Search results: Db2 for z/OS

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Delete DB2 Old Archive logs without stopping DB2

We have a lot of old logs in our DB2 BSDS that no longer exist. I dont find a documentation that explain how to remove them without stopping DB2 and in the DB2 doc : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=utilities-dsnju003-change-log-in...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Display or messages to monitoring the available private storage

We think it would be very useful to have messages or displays to monitor the available private storage (below the line, above the line and above the bar). In other products have message or displays to monitor the private storage: - In MQ we have m...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Display Trace owner when OPx buffer used

The -DISPLAY TRACE(*) command does not indicate which address space owns the trace when the destination is OPx. Since the OPx destination must be managed by some product/address space it would be helpful to know this. A typical scenario: The syspr...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

INTERPRET Function for Packed-decimal Data

We have some old tables with a CHAR column where we store a record formatted by a Cobol Program. It contains a mix of display data and packed-decimal data. To use that data we have to read it in a Cobol program and interpret it using a Cobol copyb...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

TCP/IP SERVICES AVAILABLE for SECPORT

Startup messages when DB2 is brought up will display the status of the standard DRDA DDF port via the DSNL519I message:DSNL519I -DXXX DSNLILNR TCP/IP SERVICES AVAILABLE 567 FOR DOMAIN domain.com AND PORT 999. DB2 does not display an equivalent mes...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Provide a facility to track Db2 Command History

A table that would record commands (like START/STOP, ), when they were executed, by whom, etc. Some commands (like DISPLAY) could be excluded. One Use Case would be to analyze why a tablespace might be in UT status when no utilities are running. A...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

display startup message about VUE status

Activating VUE in DB2 involves a change to the zparm but there is nothing in the DB2 MSTR log which states that it is active. In MQ you get a couple of messages on startup, including CSQY036I +xxxx CSQYASCP QMGRPROD=VUE, recording product usage fo...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhance the DISPLAY LOG COMMAND to show if a specific active log dataset belonging to one member of a data sharing group is allocated to 1 or more other members in the data sharing group.

This command would be useful to allow DB2 SYSPROGS/DBAs to see if a specific active log dataset belonging to one member of a data sharing group is allocated to 1 or more other members in the data sharing group. This would allow the REMOVAL PENDING...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

256 VLDB2012 - DB2 command enhancement -DISPLAY UTILITY

DB2 commands need to be improved in many aspects to provide additional usability, functionality and detail. -DISPLAY UTILITY DETAIL would provide additional diagnostic information about impacted objects e.g. DATABASE/TABLESPACE/PARTITION and/or TA...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Add timestamp to all -DISPLAY command outputs

More and more companies are using multiple DISPLAY commands to track for problems or usage statistics etc. The problem is that the TIMESTAMP when the command was issued is not in the output (apart from DISPLAY BLOCKERS) It would be really good to ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration