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Allow a MASS DELETE as a recovery point for a tablespace

As we discussed in case TS019823289, we believe it's necessary to be able to use a MASS DELETE (recorded in SYSCOPY) as a recovery point for a tablespace. This would avoid reading large amounts of log files that, in our view, aren't necessary. We ...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

REORG DISCARD for RTS history tables

The history data collected in SYSTABSPACESTATS_H and SYSIXSPACESTATSS_H are filled so quickly and causes huge impact on catalog and directory storage group. However the only maintenance mechanism available at the moment is delete command with wher...
8 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Consistent Navigational views for Calculations, Workflows and Views

Currently when viewing all the views, you can filter by Object Type or view name but similar functionality doesn't exist on Workflows and Calculations which makes it difficult to search for Workflows and Calculations. Just to summarize, we need th...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Planned for future release

Allow RECOVER INDEX BACKOUT YES for index with COPY NO

The RECOVER TABLESPACE with BACKOUT YES is a relatively new recover option. It tells Db2 RECOVER to start with the current state of the tablespace and read the data change log backwards to find all recent changes to the tablespace and undo those c...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

REORG DISCARD for utility-history-tables

We tried to establish a Housekeeping for the utility-history-tables.The first appoach was to execute a REORG DISCARD to remove old data from the two tables. This is not possible, because the DISCARD OPTION is not applicable for catalog or director...
8 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Ability to customize the stage reminder email body

Useful: Ability to customize the stage reminder (scheduled reminder) email body, standard email body content doesn't satisfy customer. They want custom reminder emails just like the notification on the workflow action. Benefit: Stage reminder (sch...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 4 Under review

DB2 utility should be protected in case of abend 878 - end of memory

Hello there, This is related to IBM case TS016981605. DB2 was not able to manage correctly 878 abend (end of virtual memory below 16M line). Because of that, we had troubles in our production environment. In this case, IBM suggested to require a "...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

RUNSTATS TABLESPACE on one TS partition scans all partitions of partitioned indexes

We encountered that the RUNSTATS on one TABLESPACE partition via RUNSTATS TABLESPACE ... PART or via LISTDEF INCLUDE TABLESPACE ... PARTLEVEL scans all partitions of a partitioned index. Therefore the runtime and the zIIP time of the jobs are extr...
10 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

RUNSTATS to Always Sample at least one row

Modify RUNSTATS utility to always sample at least one row of every non-empty TS/partition event when TABLESAMPLE number is low.
about 2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

UTILITY wait for other Utility

Consider a Utility A executing on an Db2-object (example LOAD) and another incompatible Utility B trying to acquire drain on the same Db2-object (example QUIESCE). Db2 immediately rejects this Utility B, without waiting. We suggest a new Utility o...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Not under consideration