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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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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...
28 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future 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...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

increase the zIIP part of the REORG ONLINE

We would like IBM to be able to increase the zIIP part of the REORG ONLINE phases in order to benefit from lower consumption on the invoiced processors.
about 1 month ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add Ability to Invoke IDCAMS from within DSNUTILB

Add something like "IDCAMS" DB2 utility to be able to manipulate with z/OS datasets taking advantage of LISTDEF and TEMPLATE for the DSN, etc.
about 2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

For online REORG, create parameter to set RC=4 when DRAIN fails

I am creating a scheduled job to perform regular REORGs of the Db2 Catalog. I am generating a list of catalog objects and feeding it to LISTDEF and then using ITEMERROR,SKIP I am using extremely gentle DRAIN settings...DRAIN_WAIT of 2 or 3 seconds...
2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

REORG PREFORMAT of 1 TB page set should be interruptable

With PH64760 one can create 1TB page sets in one step. If one runs a REORG PREFORMAT on such large objects, the Media Manager Preformat task is not interruptable. Such a size of 1TB needs ~1.5hours to preformat the page set. In the meanwhile neith...
2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

COPY NO Indexes to be recorded in SYSLGRNX

It would be very helpful if ALL indexes are recorded in SYSLGRNX which will then open the possibility for a BACKOUT YES recovery for all TS+IX and avoid a potentially costly and long REBUILD INDEX for some very large tables and when backing out a ...
2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Print LOAD Report on separated DDNAME

During the execution of the LOAD utility, when a record is discarded, it appears first in the classification phase (limited to 2000 occurrences) and then in the load report (no limit). We want the report to be printed in a different DDNAME, differ...
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Under review

Reorg Discard - documentation change

V13 Reorg Discard syntax introduces a new option NOCHECKPEND. When this option is used and the Reorg discards data from a parent row then the utility will NOT set the CHECKPEND on the child tables. This results in an referentially inconsistent dat...
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

ALLOW (SOME) UTILITIES TO OPERATE ON TABLESPACE TABLE NAME

I would like it to be easier for developers or other end-users to more easily use some basic Db2 utilities. For example, RUNSTATS or RECOVER with redirected recover functionality. But any utility that only operates on tablespace today, consider al...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration