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Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS

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Providing a new HPU parameter so that we can chose the number of BSAM buffers for SORTIN.

When unloading and sorting data due to ORDER BY option, HPU reads data from tablespace and write it to DFSORT SORTIN dataset via QSAM with BUFNO=60, that is a default. In the environment where zHPF is enabled, DFSORT has used BSAM for SORTIN since...
about 6 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 4 Delivered

HPU 'FASTU-DELIMITED' output format delimiter issue

We are in the process of converting CA DB2 Fast Unload jobs to IBM HPU and got the below issue for atleast 16 Batch jobs and impacting the migration to IBM DB2 tools. Faced the delimiter issue with IBM HPU as below :- CA Fast Unload output - '000R...
11 months ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 3 Delivered

Add Restart Capability RFE 109421

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=109421 Add restart capability to HPU as illustrated in the Use Case to reduce the manual effort to change the control cards. use Case: Need to be able to restart. Without re...
over 8 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 3 Delivered

HPU should has issued LOCK TABLE statement in SQL mode.

Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS V5.1 documentation says that when we specify LOCK YES, the table can be accessed only in read-onlymode. But according to PMR: 00483,6V5,760, HPU can not issue LOCK TABLE in the case of SQL mode. <>Db2 Hig...
over 6 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 0 Delivered

Double " delimiter issue with HPU

When unloading from an Imagecopy using HPU, data gets unloaded like this : " 12345"~"SMA "O" DRAIN TILE CO. LTD. 05 while with DSNUTILB,https://bigblue.aha.io/ideas/ideas/ZHPUL-I-31 it gets unloaded like this: " 12345"~"SMA ""O"" DRAIN TILE CO. LT...
over 2 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 3 Delivered

HPU : external file support for IN predicate

our customer wants to migrate from a competitor's product to IBM HPU. This product supports the following syntax to read a list of arguments for the SQL - WHERE IN predicate from a flat file. The syntax is as follows: SELECT * FROM creator.tbnameW...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 2 Delivered

Externalize 'INZI195I & INZU176I' messages to syslog for more accurate verification of execution status, and provide input for decision making.

In a recent case of HPU execution , it was not possible to act efficiently because the information does not include teblaspace / object
over 4 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 2 Delivered

DB2 Tools HPU Local Time Template RFE 123194

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=123194 Customer would like to generate the template's DSN using LOCAL time instead of GMT. The response on PMR 24615 227 000 is that this needs to be a RFE. RFE for Product: ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 0 Delivered

Support spanned unload of XML columns

Although the documentation and the error message content if you try to do this suggests that this is possible, it isn't. We would like XML to be supported with spanned unloads just as LOB columns are today (and have been supported in the core IBM ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 4 Delivered

LISTDEF support for DB2 Views in HPU RFE 101390

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=101390 HPU supports to generate a list of objects - 'LISTDEF listname INCLUDE TABLESPACES TABLE owner.tbname' - that is later used in the UNLOAD. But, there is no support t...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 0 Delivered