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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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Enhance message DSNU180I with job name

When a utility collides with another utility we get message DSNU180I. It would help a lot it that message included the job name for the other utility execution. In our current case a COPY could not run as it is not compatible with the LOAD utility...
8 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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

Improve concurrency on SYSUTILX when the system is under stress

When the system is under stress (max CPU), there is a contention noticed between Db2 utility jobs on table SYSUTILX.
3 months 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...
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration