Happy new year! Now that 2026 has arrived, let’s look back at the many innovations introduced in Db2 13 during the second half of last year, including function level 508 in October and many new-function APARs. The headline for each item is a link the description for each item in product...
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Downtime during application updates can disrupt critical workloads and frustrate users. With Db2 13 Function Level 508 , DBAs and application developers can deploy more new features without outages—thanks to rebind phase-in for SQL PL routines and trigger packages. Function level 508...
Db2 13 for z/OS continues to enhance flexibility for application developers. With function level 508 , you can now control many settings for local applications by using Db2 profile tables—without changing your application code. Db2 profile tables are used to monitor and control various...
By Cynthia Suo and Paul McWilliams. Function level 508 of Db2 13 for z/OS introduces four new built-in scalar functions support generation and formatting of universally unique identifier (UUID) values in Db2 for z/OS , GENERATE UUID and GENERATE UUID BINARY for generating the UUID values,...
With function level 508 in Db2 13 for z/OS, you can use new option keywords in CREATE TABLESPACE statements to easily control how Db2 uses specific table spaces in a work file database. The two new syntax keywords, FOR SORT and FOR DGTT, can be used only when creating partition-by-growth (PBG)...
By Sharon Roeder and Ariana Bibiano Starting in function level 508 of Db2 13 for z/OS, system administrators can increase the maximum number of active and archive logs in the bootstrap data set (BSDS). The maximum number of active log data sets is increased to 1,000 per log copy and the...
With the availability of the PTF for APAR PH66983 , you can now activate function level V13R1M508 to enable the following new capabilities in your Db2 13 for z/OS environment. BLOCKING THREADS table function enhancements Both the BLOCKING THREADS table function and the -DISPLAY...
Introduction You may or may not be familiar with OpenTelemetry (OTel), but it has become very popular lately due to the adoption of hybrid cloud architecture, where applications get split into several layers, which makes monitoring and observability of what is happening very cumbersome. The...