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Search results: Db2 for z/OS

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Support DB2 LUW Specific Functions that are Missing in DB2 z/OS

State of California Office of Systems Integration (OSI) uses Db2 LUW in AIX environment, to support Child Welfare Reporting Caseworkers. We are working on a proof of concept to demonstrate transitioning of reporting workloads from Db2 LUW to IDAA ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DSNTIAUL should support input LRECL size of > 80 bytes and not ignore input beyond the first 72 bytes

It is sometimes easy to put SQL all on one record as long as the LRECL of that record is very large. It becomes difficult to parse that SQL so it is divided into 72 byte records. Currently, the IBM utilities have input files that can have a LRECL ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Distributed Thread cancelled due to Idle Thread Timeout or MONITOR IDLE THREADS not writing record to SYS1.LOGREC

We noticed that every DB2 distributed thread that is cancelled because: 1) Idle thread timeout value that is specified by Db2 subsystem parameter IDTHTOIN in macro DSN6FAC is exceeded; or 2) ATTRIBUTE2 value in a row with KEYWORD value MO...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Have GET generate a useful Swagger doc for REST services that call native SQL SPs

Within a REST client like Postman or SoapUI, you can call the URI for a Db2 REST service with the GET command and the client will, from information passed to it from Db2, build a Swagger document that describes the data being sent to/from the REST...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 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

Add SYSDISC DSNTIAUL format to REORG utility

Sometimes there's a need to repopulate DB2 tables concatenating outputs from REORG SYSDISC and DSNTIAUL in a single LOAD SYSREC file. So the idea is to have a parameter like REORG ... SYSDISC FORMAT INTERNAL|DSNTIAUL. Basically the difference betw...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

optimiser to consider workfile size to determine to use a sort operation

Hi, were coping with a -904 00C90084 or 00C90085 DSNDB07 during a simple left outer join. Apparently the optimiser is not smart enough to determine wether or not to use a sort operation because his lack of knowledge about the sort work file alloca...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Exclude TEMPLATE utility from IFCID 3

As for each call of the TEMPLATE utility an accounting record is written and as we use lots of TEMPLATE utilities, the overall utility accounting records are diluted. So we need the possibility to exclude the SMF data for TEMPLATE utility calls fr...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Db2: Recovery of Mainframe Db2 databases without applying changes.

When the DB2 is performing a recover it uses log and copy files, it may be some sitations where the log contains changes that we dont want to restore. For exemple we may have inserts made by an authorized program and also updates performed by an u...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add support for PDS input files to PRESORT in LOAD

The Utilities Enhancement Tool (UET) provides support for the PRESORT keyword for LOAD. It will sort the input file and pass it to LOAD to perform the LOAD. It will accept the input file as being a PDS and perform a PRESORT. UET will be withdrawn ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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