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Search results: Db2 for z/OS

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DB2 z/OS - Message id - DSNJ110E - Additional alerts for active log monitoring and highlighted new message id when DB2 logging was suspended

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...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

DECFLOAT support for COBOL and PLI with DCLGEN

When we run DCLGEN on an object with a DECFLOAT column, we get the following error: DSNE958I DCLGEN DOES NOT SUPPORT THE SQL DATA TYPE DECFLOAT (SQLTYPE 996) FOR THE PLI LANGUAGE DSNE905I EXECUTION COMPLETE, MEMBER ... ADDED The created DECLARE an...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Correct wrong data in IFCID0172 QW0172HQ/QW0172Q1 when package changes occur during waiting/deadlocking

The issue is that 1.- Thread 1 and Thread 2 get locks 2.- Thread 1 changes packages 3.- Thread 1 and 2 deadlock 4.- Thread 1 is chosen as blocker and deadlock processing uses user data from Thread 1's waiter, but the package dependent information ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow for "OPTIMIZE FOR n ROWS" to be added to DELETE, UPDATE Statements

OPTIMIZE FOR 1 ROW can be added to SELECT SQL. One reason may be to influence the optimizer to chose one index over another, or to not perform a SORT with List Prefetch Adding OPTIMIZE FOR 1 ROW to a DELETE statement results in an error: EXPLAIN A...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Rotate an archive-enabled PBR tablespace without causing a deadlock

When we try to rotate partitions of an archive-enabled PBR tablespace, Db2 requires us to disable archiving before the rotate then re-enable archiving after the rotate. However, when we re-enable archiving we cause a deadlock with CICS and the onl...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add Bufferpool ID # to SMF 100/2 DNSDQDBP

Hello z/OS DB2, I am processing the SMF 100 subtype 1 and subtype 2 records and match upthe buffer pool data. In the SMF 100/1 DSNDQBST section, the buffer pools are identified by a buffer pool ID number. On the SMF 100/2 records, DNSDQDBP section...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Planned for future release

LOAD with DISCARDS 1 should not require a discard data set

We wanted to load two partitions at partition level: //LOA001 EXEC #DB2UT, // SYSTEM=T, // SYSTEMID=L, // COND=(4,LT), // SYSUT1=Y, // LARGE=Y, // SAR=N //SYSREC01 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=VTDBM.UL.VETB0040.REC.PART1 //SYSREC02 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=VTDBM.UL.VET...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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

Avoid synchronous preformat in SQL INSERT transactions

[Background]The customer's system providing banking services abroad is exposed to regulatory risk by the local banking regulator.The customer is forced to complete a specific transaction within a second basically.This specific SQL INSERT transacti...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Process PBG same as non-UTS Segmented When Using LISTDEF

When using LISTDEF with “PARTLEVEL 0”, partitioned by growth tablespaces which were converted from non-partitioned segmented tablespaces are no longer being considered as part of the result set. In order to maintain the same result list I would li...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration