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Be able to selectively export individual records out of Catalogs using the Java API

When you have multiple IBM Product Master Environments, some for development and some for production, you may want to promote changes from development to production. However, if some records in a catalog are still in development when other records...
7 months ago in Product Master 3 Functionality already exists

Modify redirected recovery to eliminate the need for repair catalog of target

Modify redirected recovery to eliminate the need for repair catalog of target The relatively new Db2 utility enhancement of redirected recovery is very useful When recovering a target tablespace from another tablespace, the IBM documentation is ve...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reorg Utility should leave objects in Status UTUT when victim of a Timeout of DBD01

We have the problem, that every now and then a reorg abends because of a timeout of DBD01 in the switch-phase. The reorged object remains in status UTUT and cannot be accessed by anyone, until the utility is terminated via command.After a long tim...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Automatically Perform a Display with Claimers when Utilities Cannot Perform a Drain on an Object

We recently migrated from BMC Utilities for Db2 to IBM Utilities. One feature that is sorely missed is that when the BMC Utilities would fail to drain because other processes had a claim on the object, BMC Utilities would perform a display with cl...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

FTS to support result set more than 10000 entires

Issue description: We have configured Free text search in Staging Environment and if we query using Free text search and query is expected to return more than 10000 entries but still FTS search returns 10000 entries. We would like to understand if...
4 months ago in Product Master 0 Planned for future release

LOAD - Add ability to bypass REPORT phase when duplicates are present

Processing a TS with a lot of duplicates. We never look at the data from the REPORT phase. Also it takes a very long time to produce. Would like the ability to have a keyword to bypass this
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Alter PBG to PBR should be possible for tables with LOBs

The statement ALTER PARTITIONING TO PARTITION BY RANGE should be applicable for tables with LOB's. One of the main drivers for us to convert from PBG's to PBR's is that our LOB tablespaces are growing very large. As the base tables usually only co...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Segregating visibility of lookup tables

Today is not possible to give different visibility (based on different roles or ACG) on Lookup Tables. For example, we would like to give some roles the visibility of the whole list of lookup tables, and others only a subset of them. This is usefu...
about 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Future 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...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 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...
9 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration