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Add DISCARD row count from Reorg to Utility history SYSOBJEVENTS table.

We would like to record details of discarded rows in the Db2 Utility History Object Event Details table. Capturing this information alongside the utility execution metadata, including the job name and execution details, would provide a valuable au...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

DB2 Load/Reorg failure - unable to drain scenario - request to issue -DIS USE in addition to -DIS CLAIMERS

When a DB2 load or reorg utility fails due to being unable to perform a drain, only a DIS CLAIMERS is issued at the end of the retries to show the correlation id of what was preventing the drain. Our shop's DDF work is categorized under common cor...
6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

zIIP enable DB2 utility COPYTOCOPY

In my shop we use DB2 Flash Copy Image Copy (FCIC) to create image copies of all our production DB2 data. This is very fast and uses very little CPU. However these copies are still on disk. To have copies on a different media we create a tape copy...
5 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

Improve throughput of InSync - IBM Integrated Synchronization

Evaluation of the feasibility of data replication from a Datasharing to an IDAA be supported by multiple Log Reader Tasks (LRTs) / Log Data Processors. In order to achieve this, we understand that a specific LRT would be responsible for capturing ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Future consideration

IDAA V8: Preserve existing data when re-enabling replication for an IDAA table

Currently, when replication is enabled for an IDAA table, the table is automatically marked for initial Load, and all previously loaded data is discarded. This requires a complete reload, even if the data already exists in the accelerator. We prop...
2 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Under review

IDAA Admin Services: Unable to administer IDAA due to client application name db2jcc_application

At our firm we block any transaction that tries to connect with a non compliant application name: example: db2jcc_applicationWe use dsn_profile_tables for this. Part of the IDAA Admin services also runs with db2jcc_application therefor we are unab...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0

IDAA V8: Better progress visibility in Admin UI during the IDAA upgrade

When an upgrade is triggered from the Management Node using the Web Admin UI, it is currently difficult to understand what is happening in the background. The available logs provide only limited information and do not clearly reflect the progress ...
3 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

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 ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

Query History

NationWide would like to see more columns reported by SYSMONITOR_QUERY_HISTORY of V8. The useful columns would be: SQLCODE, SQLSTATE, Error Description, CORR ID, fetch count, resultset bytes.
7 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration