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Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS

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Integrate RACF into ADMIN tool

Would be nice to have for 'DB2 under RACF'-sites that we can see on a object which auth RACF Profile rule is used. And see who/groups are on this profile. And give an message if you dont have auth to see this (in RACF organised)
4 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Utility History Support

For the utility history support it will be a very nice feature to include a canned report option which gives the utilities that were running at a point in time for an object or a list of objects e.g. at a database level or currently in scope on th...
4 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add capability of using GEN parameters in change management batch interface procedure (GOCCM)

We had below requirement from the user: We have an existing column in an existing table that we are adding a new RI to a new domain table. If we issue the compare normally using object comparison tool, we get both the table create DDL and the new ...
5 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

ADM - PANELID ADB1S - DROP at COMMAND line does not provide process to DROP RESTRICT ON DROP

Dropping at the command line does not allow the capability to have DROP ON RESTRICT ALTERS be generated. When entering DROP in the SELECT field, panels are displayed to accomplish this. This should also be done for DROP at the command line. This s...
5 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Recover statements partitioned tablespace

If there are image copies for a tablespace partition you cannot use DSNUM ALL in the recover statement. You have to name every single partition in the revocer statement. Admin Tool Always generates RECOVER DSNUM ALL. We have to edit that ourselves...
6 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Run REORG only for ALTERs that placed in AREOR (exclude AREO*) and needed for newly deployed modules (Bind/Rebind) eg DROP COLUMN

Currently, the RUN_REORG_REBUILD option has the following characteristics M = Mandatory. Generate REORG utility statements to remove REORG pending conditions. (only Reorg Pending)A = All relevant. Generate all needed REORG utility statements to fu...
6 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Non-disruptive add column not null with no default

Currently, the conversion of a new NOT NULL column without default at the end of a table is done via an UNLOAD / DROP / CREATE / LOAD A content (default) is generated for the column during the unload in order to be able to load this column afterwa...
6 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Display index partitions like Tablespace partitions because of RPN conversion

We have converted Tablespaces to RPN with also the possibility to alter the DSSIZE of indexes per partition. So it would be nice to see those DSSIZE per partition within ADBL as you see by Tablespaces (see attachment) instead of take a look in all...
6 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DDL and pending DDL

In admin Tool - Gen command lets the user control the DDL scope as well as the pending DDL scope. So the user can control if the DDL generated includes the pending change or presents the DDL excluding the pending change. The DDL command against an...
7 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide wider coverage for Db2 catalogue generated utilities.

The Db2 catalogue allows users to use the U.R line command, for example, beside a tablespace to automatically generate a runstats batch job for that tablespace. However, it would also be nice if users had the option to use the U.R line command bes...
7 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration