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Search results: Db2 for z/OS

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Db2 native and RACF security consistency requirement

This is especially important for shops like ours where for years DB2 native security and migrate to RACF security to be complaint with security audit and policies, and also new mainframe applications standards. There is multiple areas where curren...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

IFCID 402 support for more than 50 unique user profiles like IFCID 365, 411 and 412

The critical issue is that IFCID 402 uniquely lacks the continuation flag essential for identifying continuation records within a single interval, a feature consistently present in other DDF-related IFCIDs (365, 411, 412). This omission significan...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Meter "dirty" pages written to DB2 table spaces (disk) from CF or local buffer pools

DB2 uses 300 tasks (DB2 writers - it could be more now with later DB2 releases) to write modified (aka, "dirty") pages to the DB2 table spaces (either permanent tables or DB2 work files). From a DB2 perspective this is "efficient" but from a resou...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

User interface to provide correlation between Db2 packages and load module

Pain Point: Housekeeping of Db2 packages (deletion of old, no longer needed application packages) is done subsequently to the houskeeping of the corresponding load modules on the loadmod. Today we use the contoken to correlate the load module with...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Allow for LISTDEF Processing and Template when specifying FROMCOPYDDN on an UNLOAD

Details: 1) Site has multiple tablespaces that use a consistent naming scheme for image copies.2) Manual does not mention use of "template-name" in the FROMCOPYDDN line of the "source-spec" section of the "UNLOAD" page.3) Receive following error w...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CHECK DATA for informational referential constraints

We use informational referential constraints, i.e. foreign keys defined as NOT ENFORCED for some relationships between tables. When running the CHECK DATA utility for a table with foreign keys defined as NOT ENFORCED the foreign keys are not check...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Missing "DROP PERIOD" possibility

Regular there is a request that we have to read certain data in a consistent state (e.g. likewise moving customer data from one DB2 environment to another) even while concurrent workload is still active and running in parallel against the same set...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DSN1COPY to support LOB INLINE COPY as input

More than 80% of our data consist of LOB data. In case of drop recovery we depend on utilities such as DSN1COPY. Without this feature provided DSN1COPY cannot be used for drop recovery when we have to use a LOB INLINE COPY as input.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow for LISTDEF Processing and Template when specifying TOCOPY on a RECOVER

Details: 1) Site has multiple tablespaces that use a consistent naming scheme for image copies.2) Manual does not mention use of "TOCOPY" in the "list-options-spec" section of the "RECOVER" page.3) Receive following error when attempting to use a ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Inconsistent locking behaviour between DB2 data sharing and non data sharing environemnt

In below use case, the result is not consistent between data sharing and non data sharing or task B running on same member or different member in data sharing.Client application team is asking for consistent locking behaviour between DB2 data shar...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration