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Search results: Db2 for z/OS

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Recover Statistics based on Statistic History Tables

In most cases an up-to-date RUNSTATS will result in better execution plans and SQL performance. But there are also cases, where new statistics result in worser execution plans and performance. For static SQL we have many possibilities to control t...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration
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DB2 to provide a way to override MAXPARTITIONS and LOCKSIZE defaults

Merged
QMF Product Development is opening this work item in response to DeveloperWorks Request id 59512 (PMR: 46297,442,000) (RTC ID 41210). Please review that work item to see the customers pain points. We have had additional discussions with the custom...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Regular Expressions (regex) scalar function

The XMLQUERY function allows the user to use the 'fn:matches' XQuery function, which is great. Please see example UDF which does this... ~~~~~~~~~~--#SET TERMINATOR ! CREATE FUNCTION "UDF_STRING_REGEX_MATCH" ( SEARCHSTRING VARCHAR (50) ) RETURNS S...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Avoid Db2 failure even if it got BSDS access initialization failure (BSDS timestamp mismatch)

[Background]- Customer's GRSRNL specifies SYSVSAM in systems exclusion list because they need to share CATALOGs. [Description]Our customer got BSDS Access initialization failure and starting Db2 was failed. Please refer to PMR#55237,615,760.They c...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists
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REPAIR CATALOG TABLESPACE command for xml table space RFE 130710

Merged
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=130710 We are working with OBJECT_CREATE_FORMAT=EXTENDED and with UTILITY_OBJECT_CONVERSION=NOBASIC for a long time without any problem. In the last time we began to work wit...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Remove the restriction on dropping a table in an explicitly created universal table space

We have converted most of the Segmented & Partitioned Tablespaces in our ERP Dev region to Universal Tablespaces. But, later started facing some issues due to the conversion as UTS are not supported by the ERP application. All the Table change...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered
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DB2 z/OS - Message id - DSNJ110E - Additional alerts for active log monitoring to be displayed after 90% for every 1% and highlighted new message id when DB2 logging was suspended

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We had a major incident due to suspended logging for one of the critical customer. One of the critical production DB2 subsystem logging was suspended , caused by stalled archive log offloading process due to insufficient storage space on archive l...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Dynamically update security exits without having to recycle DB2

We have a situation where customized source code had rebuilt because the original was lost. If we have to make multiple changes to get this to work, we have to recycle DB2 each time which is not practical for a prod environment. Even when insertin...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Call a Cobol program via DB2 stored procedure (Case TS005323974)

A cobol program can be called as routine from another cobol program or via a cobol stored procedure called by a java program In this second case, the program use a larger number of getpages, on tablespace buffer pool than in the first The problem ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Change in DSNTIAD code in order to get an abend in case of embedded comments

Our application developers use DSNTIAD to UPDATE tables also in the production environment. If they run a query with DSNTIAD and a comment embedded we'd like the job to abend.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration