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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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Keyword to include all partitions in redirected recovery

It should be possible to use a keyword (e.g. PARTLEVEL ALL) on the recover statement for redirected recover. Currently the only way to do partition level recover is to ennumerate all the partitions in the recover statement. If your environment has...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Delivered

IMAGECOPY support: LOAD PART to support STACK YES like REORG PART

For the subject image copy behavior in the LOAD utility, it is as the customer describes: COPYDDN can be specified at the job / table space level but requires the RESUME or REPLACE keywords at the table space level, so this would effectively resul...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow for UNLOAD SHRLEVEL CHANGE and REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE to be compatible wen executing on the same partition

We are running very busy environmenet with IDAA being frequently refreshed by loader with increamnts of inserted records. In addition, we are using the DB2 automated housekeeping approach with the DSNACCOX stored proc implmentation to manage and t...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Delivered

Option to override LOAD utility maintaining MAXASSIGNEDVAL for identity columns in Db2 V12

Our existing process to move data from one region to another using the LOAD utility stopped working on tables with generated by default as identity key column after we upgraded to Db2 12. The new LOAD enhancement to maintain MAXASSIGNEDVAL is caus...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 5 Delivered

FORCE for LOAD

We are currently depending on vendor software that has the capability of cancelling DB2 threads when entering the switch phase of a load. This capability has saved the application team hundreds of incident tickets nightly as they perform loads daily.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Delivered

Improve DSNACCOX procedure and DISPLAY command to provide correct information

This idea is a result of case TS002735466 and is being opened as recommended by IBM Support. Currently, there is an undocumented limit of the internal buffers which are managed by DB2 and which are used when processing DISPLAY DB command. When it...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Delivered

LOAD REPLACE inline copy does not have a PIT_RBA value therefore does not create a valid recovery point

This was reported in Case:TS002919261, text included in next section. All customers using LOAD REPLACE inline copy. This is a gap in the Utility process.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow REPAIR CATALOG on indexes to reset version numbers

Allow REPAIR CATALOG on indexes to reset version numbers In Db2 Cloning Tool, index version mismatches cause indexes to be rebuilt on the target rather than using the physical copy. Some of these indexes are very large. Corrective measures ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Delivered

LOAD with OVERRIDE for Columns with GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP

we use partitioned tables which must be new structured from time to time. But we have to put all the old data in the new structure. But with column mentioned ( GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP ) it is not possi...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Delivered

IBM Load - if load column has bad data, Load discards the record instead of Loading the record with a Default value

While converting from BMC Load Plus to the IBM Load, the following anomaly has been identified: The BMC Load parameter DEFAULTIF ERROR does not exist in IBM Load. This causes BMC to load the default value for the column whenever it encounters bad ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Delivered