Confession of the Month
DB2 Red Alert - DB2 10 Data Sharing Customers
IBM has issued the following Red Alert warning of a possible data integrity issue for customers running DB2 10 for z/OS in a data sharing environment: IBM has become aware of potential data loss when running data sharing under any mode of DB2 10 for z/OS.DB2 10 for z/OS takes advantage of a CFCC/XES performance enhancement by allowing repeated READ CASTOUT CLASS requests to the CF to utilize a restart token and retrieve from the queue where the previous read left off . A defect has been identified in this implementation of the enhanced REA...[more about DB2 Red]
Assembler : Getting Connected to DB2
Published 7 May 2013 - by James Gill aka DB2 Dinosaur
At the end of another week of chasing my tail and trying not to get in too much trouble with Mrs DB2 Dinosaur, I've resolved to write a quick post about getting the assembler component of the DB2 monitor connected to DB2.Whilst this is fairly well documented in the manuals, we have a slightly different set of requirements, as:a) We aren't running application code / allocating a plan or package, andb) We are running commands and talking to the IFIProbably you already looked at this in the DB2 V9 Application Programming and SQL Guide and you're w...[more about Assembler :]
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