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Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS

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Specify a Check Constraint Through Alter Panels

There is currently no option to be able to specify a list of accepted values for a column on a table through the Alter panels.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Delivered

ADB2GEN: generate DDL for hidden ROWID columns

We have several tables that contain LOB columns and thus also a generated rowid column. If an extra column is added, it will be placed at the end. If we now generate DDL for a table with a LOB column via ADB2GEN, then the generated rowid column is...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Generic Ignore for New v12 Columns on SYSTABLESPACE and SYSINDEX

v12 introduced additional columns on SYSTABLESPACE and SYSINDEX which match attributes that were previously present on SYSTABLEPART and SYSINDEXPART, respectively. When a source object has been created in v12 is compared to a target object which w...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow execution of revoke impact in batch mode

During migration of security from native DB2 to RACF, there is cleanup activity after creation of all profiles and permits completed in order to remove grants in DB2 for a clean picture. Also, for any other security configuration change, clean up ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Show a status for Replication on the ADM "AT" screen

It should be easy to identify tables that are Disabled for Replication. The user can go to the KEYS screen one table at a time, so see status like this: Status for table . . : TECH.TBASP_ALERT_HISTRY Acceleration status : 1 Load status : Loaded Re...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Change Management - refresh button

The panel doesn't automatically refresh and no command "button" to do so.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

Generate drop of foreignkeys if foreignkey-statement is not provided

We generate DDL on the basis of an external tool and compare the newly generated DDL for each changed DB2 object against the catalog and let Admintool generate the conversion strategy as a workstatement list. Whether an object has changed or not r...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow generated utilities to operate on a listdef rather than individual steps

If we generate a utility such as copy against a list of objects then the resulting job, or jobs, are generated with one step per object. This makes the JCL unwieldly and serialises the run.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Delivered

ADB27C panel constraint/primary key column flag

On the ADB27C panel, give the user a facility (or let them know upfront) whether any columns are part of a constraint, index or anything that requires “extra work” (e.g. Having to use UP,DP to update, etc.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

DB2 Administration Tool enhancement for runstats profiles

Enhance the Administration tool when accessing objects via the system catalog, table info. When using the RP(runstats profiles) at the table level it shows just a portion of the data in the profile_text column from the SYSIBM.SYSTABLES_PROFILES. E...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered