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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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REORG PART LEVEL PBG tablespace

When I run a PART LEVEL REORG (PART 1 in this case) of a PBG tablespace and the current data doesn't fit into its original partition DB2 adds a new partition at the end and uses it for the "overflow" data, although all the already existing partiti...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

zSort information in Utilities History

When running some utilities Db2 can choose to use zSort. In Utilities History (SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES). there is a column SORTNAME where you can see if DSSORT or DB2SORT has been used. The information if zSort has been used or not is vital as it can ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Track SHRLEVEL info in Utilities history

In Db2 13 utility execution can be recorded in one or two utilities history tables. We are struggling to find all utility executions ran with SHRLEVEL NONE to tell the applications to change their parameters to avoid problems. It is very hard to f...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Load Utility: Extension of field selection criterion option by AND conditions

The Db2 for z/OS LOAD utility offers a field selection criterion for the INTO TABLE option via WHEN( ... = ...). Since increasingly complex data structures are used application developers want to specify more complex conditions for selection of to...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable of changing SWITCHTIME in REORG by ALTER command

SWITCHTIME command in REORG is valuable parameter to control the timing to cancel AREOR status. However, the value is not changeable from the one which is determined when REORG is executed. To increase its flexibility, we request you to be able to...
6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

new DDCARD SYSERROR

The output under sysprint can contain several thousand lines, especially when working with large listdefs. Then it is often very difficult to identify all the messages that lead to an RC8 or RC4. This is particularly true if there are several corr...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Eliminate Reorgs failing with S513 & IEC146I 513-04 when reorging LOBs

The cause of the S513 error is due to the DB2 reorg utility trying to write two image copies in parallel (one for BASE and one for LOB) when a BASE UTS with LOB TS is being REORG’d and the specified template for image copy datasets has the STACK Y...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Idea For Limited Partition Locking for RI Related Objects

Lock just the partitions of related objects using a cascaded key structure when utilities are used to write to the database. Allows Db2 RI use to coexist with utility operation when it is impractical to lock all partitions of parents and children.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Improved message text for DSNU537I

DSNU537I displays a page set which is not allowed in the list. As the utility can not know what the user intends to do, the text should be changed to a more general text without naming a pageset. Why: 1) Assume userA runs COPY with 4 objects, one ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance message DSNU180I with job name

When a utility collides with another utility we get message DSNU180I. It would help a lot it that message included the job name for the other utility execution. In our current case a COPY could not run as it is not compatible with the LOAD utility...
7 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration