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Search results: Db2 for z/OS

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Improve performance in queries with IN predicate

Hello! We had problems with CPU in Production environment several months ago with a simple query with IN predicate. The CPU reached 100%! Particularly, this query has many literals within IN predicate and the IN predicate can't be matching. After ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered

Allow application to decide what to do when a timeout occurs (-911 vs. -913)

In time-critical processes, it can be important to be able to react to timeout conditions in Db2. In Db2 V13, there is new functionality that allows an application to override the default timeout setting (the CURRENT LOCK TIMEOUT special register)...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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

Log offload task needs to be manually cancelled restarted after outage to tape

We are seeing situations when tape processing is down and a DB2 request to offload logs to tape is initiated using dynamic allocation, that offload task will hang and never be satisfied until the offload task is cancelled and re-driven manually. T...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Avoid new workload during Db2 Restart Light

In a data sharing environment a Db2 Restart Light was needed after an LPAR outage to remove retained locks and resolve indoubt units of recovery.The failing member was automatically restarted in light mode on one of the surviving LPARs, and showin...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

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

CAF plan name new feature

There are applications that have hardcoded the plan name in their programs using CAF. In some cases, it is wide spread that it will take a lot of work coding and testing due to program change. To avoid the cost of coding and testing, can there be ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PieceMeal Delete without coding application

During CERT (V12-CERT-2017) it was a desire amongst several customers to get a sort of imbedded COMMIT in the new piecemeal DELETE - when running from TSO attachment.-Alternatively to allow procedural language (SQL PL like) syntax in SPUFI/DSNTEP2...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add option to DCLGEN utility to support conditional compilation based on whether the SQL option is used

Some non-Db2 programs use the member created by the DCLGEN utility as a copy member because they are processing a file with the same layout as the COBOL portion of the DCLGEN member. The DCLGEN generated member contains a DECLARE TABLE statement, ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Make IDAA SQL Extensions available to the Db2 SQL API

By attaching an IDAA to our Db2 for z/OS we are adding analytics capability to the mainframe. Our data scientists are starting to exploit the capability, but need more SQL functionality (scalar functions) to be able to do analytics on all types of...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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