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Search results: Db2 for z/OS

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Issue command DISPLAY DB CLAIMERS on a LOAD SHRLEVEL NONE when DRAIN fails in UTILINIT phas

We faced situations in which LOAD SHRLEVEL NONE jobs abends with S04E and Reason Code 00C200EC during UTILINIT phase. When this abends occurs, LOAD was unable to DRAIN all the claimers, once it is SHRLEVEL NONE, before beggining LOAD data into tab...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Data Studio does not support IPV6 addressing

Currently Data Studio does not support IPV6 addressing. We are now running with IPV4 and that works fine but are now testing IPV6 for future use. Data Server Manager does work with IPV6 and Data Studio should as well. We tested with 6 part address...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

SQL Data Insights - APIs for model retraining plus all other maintenance tasks available via UI today

Most enterprise customers do not use UIs at all outside of test systems, all production work has to be automated and scripted. SQL Data Insights requires the retraining of a model in case the data in the underlying table or view changed. So retrai...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Drop partition in UTS PBR RPN tablespaces

Dropping partitions in a tablespaces can only be done by dropping and re-creating the entire tablespace In earlier versions of DB2 for z/OS you could not add partition to an existing tablespace. Consequently we created about 60 tablespaces with 25...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Delivered

Improved LATCH when index splitting

[Current Product & Version]-Db2 12 for z/OS-IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2Performance Expert on z/OS v5.5-z/OS v2.3-WebSphere Application Server v9 for z/OS [Environment]Data sharing in three-way sysplex environment [Problem]Our customer is us...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IFCID 316 401 ZiiP Usage Statistics

Currently the IFCIDs 316 and 401 contains great data for monitoring and tuning SQLs. It would be excellent if these IFCIDs could be extended to include a separate set of ZiiP counters. IFCID 25 does this for Utilities at the moment.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Improve INDOUBT thread processing in two-phase commit scenario

Recently we had a pretty severe production outage on an 8-way data sharing group. After resolution of the root cause, WAS and Db2 z were quite slow in recovery. Following the crash, there were dozens of indoubt threads and lots of retained locks a...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Reorg Shrlevel CHANGE for Tables with Index on Expression Index

Currently a REORG shrlevel CHANGE is not possible on UTS tablespaces which have an expression Index (Index on Expression) defined to them. the message below gets issued: DSNU076I DSNURFIT - KEYWORD=SHRLEVEL CHANGE INVALID FOR EXPRESSION-BASED INDE...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Under review

Read all SQL statements from dynamic statement cache

Storage areas in DB2 become bigger and bigger, so does the dynamic statement cache. When reading the DSC data with the IFI function READS (IFCID 316) the possibility to get an RC 00E60833 increases, when specifying a return area that is large enou...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow more granular control over what SQL will result in Statistics Profiles updates

Unnecessary statistics can increase RUNSTATS collection elapsed and CPU time, sometimes exponentially, and impact BIND/PREPARE performance because the optimizer must read in all available statistics to determine what is and is not useful for each ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release