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Search results: Db2 for z/OS

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ARCRETN - Managing by DFSMS - SMS Management Class

In a situation related to replication delay, it was necessary to keep the Db2 archive log longer than its current retention period. The subsystem parameter ARCRETN was set as 17 days as in Management Class. The planning was to alter the retention ...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration
119 VOTE

Resolve a restriction that CACHE DYN STABILITY function can not use with CONCENTRATE WITH LITERALS option.

Customer environment Db2 V12 <- DRDA -> Db2connect/JDBC(IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ type 2) Server side.(JDBC Type2 is used) Windows server: - WebSphere BASE 9.0.0 (Windows2016) - Db2client / IBM Data Server Runtime Client V11.1...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Db2 Developer Extension - Native Stored Procedure (NSP) edit in place, run and deploy from catalog listing

Currently to edit a native stored procedure, you have to make a copy of it and put it in a new file. We would like it to work like Data Studio where you can display the stored procedure in Data Source Explorer, right click and open with routine ed...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Improvement in Db2 LOAD UTILITY processes associate with data replication via Qrep

-Need: Meet the growing demand for data replication from Banco do Brasil -Scenario: Banco do Brasil is a large user of data replication using Qrep (IIDR) + DB2 v13 for zOS, there are thousands of tables replicated from production environments for ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enhanced Instrumentation for workfiles

A possibility through IFI and/or a new command -DIS WORKFILES to get an “asis” use list of all work pools (Sort , DGTT, Work etc.) This data is crucial for tuning the number, size and type of the work spaces that we all have. The output should be ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enable customers running 24/7 to create unique indexes

Our Internet and Mobile applications are used 24/7 and we do not have any batch windows nor any maintenance windows. When creating new indexes on existing tables the a CREATE INDEX operation generates an unwanted outage when created with DEFER NO....
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Future consideration

ALTER STOGROUP can run in parallel to applications => Deferred ALTER

We need to move a lot of page sets and hence a lot of data from one z/OS catalog to another and also to other stogroups and volumes. For this task we nned to ALTER the hlq of the page sets and move them via DFDSS FASTREPLICATION. Unfortunately the...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve auditing possibilities

As Db2 for z/OS users, we want to use the AUDIT POLICY functionality to support internal and external auditors and provide the proof of proper allowed access to Db2 z/OS objects, especially in the form of SQL queries using input host variables (“f...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

proactive messages of objects ??% full or 'follow-up objects free space' function inside Db2

Follow up TS and XS limits in Db2 z/OS is not an easy job. The last 6 months, we coped issues with partitioned indexes full. This were partitioned bases 'temporarily session' tables for applications, whereby the not active partition is cleaned up ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add SCOPE(GROUP) for -DIS STATS(INDEXTRAVERSECOUNT)

Our shop has 13 LPARs for our Production environment & while trying to figure out the best way to combined all the different FTB FACTOR values for the individual IXs it was mentioned maybe a future feature of something along the lines of -DIS ...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration