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    Apply COS Object lock with a retention period and legal hold for Db2 database backups and log archival.

    •As part of the backup, the object(S) created in COS should get an object lock with retention period assigned. •This is used to prevent the backup image from being deleted for that period. Once the object lock expires, the backup image will be del...
    3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 1 Future consideration

    COS Allow tagging for backup and log files

    COS objects can be tagged at creation e.g. to specify the time the COS object how long the object should be kept.
    3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 2 Future consideration

    COS Add short-lived tokens support for backup and log file archival

    Short-lived tokens support is demanded by customers for backup and log file archival.
    3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 1 Needs more information

    Deferred table creation

    Don't allocate extents for empty tables (and no extent for index and lobs) like on Db2 z/OS.Allow SELECT (returns 0 rows), RUNSTATS, ... and don't materizalize until first row insert (or LOAD).
    5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 1 Not under consideration

    Provide UPSERT avoiding DUPREC

    While MERGE can be used to emulate UPSERT, it is possible that MERGE fails with DUPREC if 2 UPSERTs implemented using MERGE try to INSERT the same row.The condition might be false and both try to INSERT. One succeeds and the other fails with DUPRE...
    5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 for SAP applications 1 Submitted

    Enable rebind of packages after a reorg in Automation Tool

    I want to use Automation Tool to reorganise a tablespace to materialise a change to a UTS. I will issue the ALTER TABLESPACE MAXPARTITIONS nnn statement during the working day, which will put the tablespace into the AREOR state. I have a job profi...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

    Automation Tool incorrectly building RUNSTAT jobs when TS has NPSI being RUNSTAT

    Unfortunately the product has been generating jobs incorrectly from the getgo for RUNSTATS. When using load balancing across 20 jobs, the partitions should be spread across the 20 jobs. This works when the NPSI is not having RUNSTATS. When the NPS...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Include mask for DFSPARM

    One of our customers working with REORG jobs built using Automation tool 4.3 have normally problems of "Sort Capacity exceeded". In order to solve this problem, our customer is using a customized skeleton HAAREORJ with syntaax: //DFSPARM DD * OPTI...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Support SCOPE PENDING option in REBUILD utility

    The SCOPE PENDING option has been available in the REBUILD INDEX DB2 utility. In the DB2 Automation Tool product this option cannot be specified.
    over 1 year ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

    For RPN TS, each partition reorged need a separate IC tape drive, need a way to limit the number of tape drives per iteration of REORG for the IC

    If 65 partitions of a RPN with NPSIs are being reorg at the same time, 65 IC tape drives would be required. That is excessive and probably all shops can't support that. Even when no NPSIs, this would be a problem. HAA generates LISTPARTS 4096 when...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Future consideration

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