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Reorg Tablespace template for version mismtach with CDC

In a test environment, it's quite common to observe a higher volume of modifications, which naturally leads to a larger data version compared to the source environment. Given this context, planning a reorganization to address such discrepancies—es...
14 days ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

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

Remove the requirement of TPCIP task when using DDF

When running source and target jobs on different LPARs, we need to use a TCPIP job even when we choose DDF as the connection type. We need that Cloning Tool uses DDF to run queries and commands on objects of the target datasharing without the obli...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Use DB2 Storclas for extents during TS Cloning

I would like an option where the CloningTool uses the StorClas from the DB2 catalog for newly created datasets (e.g. extents).Currently only the following options are supported: no specification means the SMS StrorClass is adopted from the origina...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

EGO_MASTER_LIST supports DNS alias

The client would like to be able to specify alias DNS name instead of official hostname for EGO_MASTER_LIST in ego.conf. For example, there are below master, master candidate, management hosts in the cluster. The left side is their official host n...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

[Security and Access Control] /etc/init.d/ego status overiding default behavior - not according to standard, breaks monitoring and automation tool chain

The init.d script being rolled out with Symphony 7.1.0 is the same across all compute and management hosts. Running the script in its intended way with the status flag always results in the same message: -bash-4.1$ sudo service ego statusego servi...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration