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Search results: Db2 for z/OS

ALTER Bufferpool enhancement for 1M page frames

Today it could happen that z/OS converts 1M page frames to 4k page frames due to demand of jobs. If Db2 admin has requested a special amount of LFAREA for 1M frames in SYS1.PARMLIB for a later ALTER BPOOL, this amount could be consumed by the prev...
13 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Enhance Utility History Function to Support DSNUTILU and DSNUTILV

The current utility history function in Db2 for z/OS is incomplete since it does not record utilities that are executed via the Db2-supplied stored procedures DSNUTILU and DSNUTILV. This gap in functionality is especially troublesome for customers...
19 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Enhance CATMAINT output to show what has been done.

Please enhance the CATMAINT output to actually show what has been done. Currently when we execute CATMAINT to change the catalog level, the following output is produced: DSNU000I 083 15:07:58.39 DSNUGUTC - OUTPUT START FOR UTILITY, UTILID = RELODC...
19 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

CSWL for PREPARE that calls a TBF

Currently, a PREPARE statement that calls a TBF with literals doesn't benefit from CSWL - concentrate statement with literals (even with this is explicitly requested). This causes high resource usage for the PREAPRE and avoids usage of the DSC. In...
26 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

VERIFY scalar function

I do have a column with invalid data select * from table where verify(name,'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÅÆØ0123456789')>0 the 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÅÆØ0123456789' is the chars that is valid in the column that can be x number of chars the sel...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Externalize instrumentation (IFCID) written at archive time

The IFCID should contain active log dataset name active log dataset size active log span (time interval Db2 has written log records into that log data set / After how many minutes was the log archived?) How full was the log (in percent) at the tim...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

DB2 Plan invalidation

As of V13, a DB2 Plan packlist can point to specific packages. If all versions of the package are freed the Plan is invalidated. We've had a number of instances where programmers have removed programs no longer in use and invalidated active plans....
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Support more than 14,500 archive log data sets in Db2 to achieve archiving and recovery requirements

Busy Db2 systems archive logs frequently due to log data set size limits. Additionally, cyber resiliency RPO requirements force frequent log switches based on a time interval (e.g., switch every 5 minutes). Both leads to more frequent log archivin...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Control (e.g. with a ZPARM) automatic log switch if the max. log span is reached

Today Db2 switches the log when the max log data set size is reached. The idea is to also let Db2 switch the log if a time interval has been reached (e.g. every 5 minutes). This is important in the context of cyber resiliency initiatives. To achie...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

64-bit db2 COBOL pgms full support

Make COBOL DB2 programs (programs SQL) fully 64-bit compatible (right now, a 64-bit COBOL pgm would have to call a 31-bit subroutine that does the DB2 stuff; the main pgm cannot do that)
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review