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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY

ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY The DB2 redirected recovery functionality allows RECOVER utility to be used to redirect the recovery of an object (the source) to another object (the target). The source and target objec...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 5 Future consideration

DIS UTIL could show also the Db2 Object involved

DISPLAY UTIL(*) is used daily, but it doesnt't show the Object involved/affected. This info is already in SYSUTILX so it seems to be possible to obtain it directly with the command Display. Currently, the DBA, Operator or Developer has to deal ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 4 Functionality already exists

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...
9 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow for Multiple Columns on LOAD INTO TABLE WHEN Criteria

We recently converted from BMC to IBM Db2 utilities. It would be very useful if multiple column names could be specified on the WHEN criteria for the Db2 LOAD utility. This would also make the functionality similar to the WHEN criteria of REORG WI...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Replacing data in System Temporal Tables using LOAD

In most tables data can be replaced using LOAD RESUME NO REPLACE. In System Termporal Tables it cannot. We want to use LOAD REPLACE to replace the existing data instead of having to delete the current data and then load with RESUME YES. The old da...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Automatically Perform a Display with Claimers when Utilities Cannot Perform a Drain on an Object

We recently migrated from BMC Utilities for Db2 to IBM Utilities. One feature that is sorely missed is that when the BMC Utilities would fail to drain because other processes had a claim on the object, BMC Utilities would perform a display with cl...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Load Utility: Extension of field selection criterion option by AND conditions

The Db2 for z/OS LOAD utility offers a field selection criterion for the INTO TABLE option via WHEN( ... = ...). Since increasingly complex data structures are used application developers want to specify more complex conditions for selection of to...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ADD OPTION ON THE RECOVER UTILITY

After open the TS012026353, IBM solve the problem by execute an DIAGNOSE TYPE(8103) to avoid the multiple messages XCF between members of DataSharing. A new parameters of RECOVER would be welcome
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Eliminate Reorgs failing with S513 & IEC146I 513-04 when reorging LOBs

The cause of the S513 error is due to the DB2 reorg utility trying to write two image copies in parallel (one for BASE and one for LOB) when a BASE UTS with LOB TS is being REORG’d and the specified template for image copy datasets has the STACK Y...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

V12-CERT-2017 - Reorg Discard registration in SYSCOPY.

We are facing more requirements for documentation of all processes that delete data. Reorg discard remove data from a table very efficient. We do not have any documentation in the DB2 system, that Reorg has discarded data. The only documentation i...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Planned for future release