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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 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 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 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...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Not under 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 ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Not under 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...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 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...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 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...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 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...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Not under consideration