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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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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.
23 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

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 1 month ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

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...
2 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...
2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

UNLOAD SYSPUNCHONLY or UNLOAD NOSYSREC

We are having many developers that need only the SYSPUNCH produced by UNLOAD but not the SYSREC. Having this option available either via SYSPUNCHONLY or NOSYSREC parameter will allow them to get quickly what they need without unloading of data whi...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Under review

Allow RECOVER INDEX BACKOUT YES for index with COPY NO

The RECOVER TABLESPACE with BACKOUT YES is a relatively new recover option. It tells Db2 RECOVER to start with the current state of the tablespace and read the data change log backwards to find all recent changes to the tablespace and undo those c...
5 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Support SCOPE PENDING on REORG INDEX

With Db2 13 FL506 LOAD partition clearing and NOKEYDELETE, NPIs are left in a pending state that needs to be resolved by a REQRG INDEX. Users will have to find there NPI indexes and submit the REORGs for them. With SCOPE PENDING support in REORG I...
5 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance LOAD to support Load on DATABASE level

We suppose to enhance LOAD utility to allow LOAD DATABASE, intended to create the possibility of loading several or all tables of a database in one step using only one SYSREC file. Background: In the past, using segmented tablespaces, we had the o...
5 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reorg discards with PARTITION range for PBR

we are using PBR with multiple partitions per month. We perform reorg discards with PARTITION range like 1: 4. But discarded data is going to a single file when do the discards with range partition. example: We would like to get the first-part dat...
6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

Modify Recovery for COPY YES indexes

at the moment any SYSCOPY (and SYSLGRNX) entries for COPY YES indexes are deleted based on the corresponding action taken on the Tablespace (or partition). The strategy to keep the image copies and SYSCOPY related information for tablespace can be...
6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

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