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Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS

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Add Abbreviation for REFRESH command in Autonomics Concole

Please add "REF" as an abbreviation for the "REFRESH" command in the Autonomics Console within the Db2 Automation Tool, particularly on the HAA$ALR3 panel. This panel is used to display the autonomic actions within a maintenance window. It is very...
8 days ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

add part level to object profile and reorg profile discard screen

We run reorg discard utility monthly with our legacy job. We have large partition by range table spaces that have billions of rows and 100's of parts. Currently with the automation tool I need to edit the object profile for each table space to cha...
20 days ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

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...
7 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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...
8 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to exclude packages from the rebind utility

Currently, rebind statements are generated based on what objects have been runstats'd -when included with a RUNSTATS utility profile- or everything -when only using the REBIND utility in the profile-. However, this also includes packages that are ...
9 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

HAA - when doing a Pending Data Change, such as DSSIZE, reorgs are generated at partition level instead of being escalated up to TS level

Changing the DSSIZE on a PBR. The entire TS must be reorged to apply the pending data change. I have coded the object set to accomplish this. The automation tool should have the intelligence to do this. I need also to do this for a DPSI index, cha...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Flexibility of Using LISTDEF Options

Db2 Automation Tool allow users to generate utility control statements using LISTDEFS. There are many options that can be used with LISTDEF utility however Db2 Automation Tool does not provide this flexibility. For instance we need to use DEFIN...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Add SORTDATA NO, RECLUSTER NO capability to generated reorgs for PDC PBR

PBRs having pending data change can be quite large resulting in a lot of temp storage needed for sorting data. Since the reorg is at TS level, this can be quite large for tables with huge CARDF. The following keywords should be able to be selected...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Detect like-named objects and convert to non-part objects on current SSID

Object Profile contained some like-named objects that were added to the profile when they were Partitioned and now they are no longer Partitioned. This would require us to update the Object Profile for those objects and resubmit the job.
about 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add Support for BLKSZLIM keyword of TEMPLATE utility

Using the Large Block Interface provided by z/OS, the performance of the Db2 COPY utility can be greatly improved when image copy data sets are created on tape. The Db2 Automation Tool does not currently allow the user to specify the BLKSZLIM keyw...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration