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    Support the arrow keys in Db2 CLP on Linux

    The Db2 CLP, since decades, does not handle arrow keys. This makes it hard to quickly go back to previous commands and edit statements. It's a nuisance to most Db2 users. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62298637/using-arrow-keys-within-db2...
    about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Submitted

    LOAD should be compatible with a snapshot backup

    LOAD is not compatible when an integrated snapshot backup (or when the backup is issued with the USE SNAPSHOT option) is being performed. During an integrated snapshot backup, in addition to the database being put into set write suspend state, it ...
    2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Under review

    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

    INPLACE REORG should always be interruptible

    Under certain circumstances it is not possible to stop/pause or force an INPLACE REORG that waits for a lock (TS019866410). Because the INPLACE REORG does not respect lock timeouts, it hangs in "lock wait" until the lock holding session releases t...
    3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 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

    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

    Option to exclude temporary tablespaces from Db2 Snapshot Backup

    It would be advantageous, if we could exclude temporary tablespaces from the Db2 Snapshot Backup (using IBM Storage Protect Snapshot)Because the temporary tablespaces have to be included its corresponding filesystems need to have “Mirror write con...
    9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Future consideration

    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

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