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allow the ability to generate REPLACE instead of RESUME YES

Sometimes you want to unload/load with REPLACE instead of RESUME YES. Need the unload utility able to generate LOAD REPLACE.
about 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Materialize changes through partition rotation

We have some large tables that need to be updated from time to time. Each time a partition is rotated it is reset, so I think that could allow the table/tablespace change to be materialize. This would allow use to save the time and processing cost...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow redirected recovery for catalog objects

I accidentally dropped a tablespace and had to recreate it. I wasn't sure about the table-structure at the time the last FIC was done so I wanted to do a redirected recovery for some catalog tables (e.g. SYSIBM.SYSCOLUMNS) to be able to recognize ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve concurrency on SYSUTILX when the system is under stress

When the system is under stress (max CPU), there is a contention noticed between Db2 utility jobs on table SYSUTILX.
10 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Ability to externalize Statistics to RTS after Runstats

In seldom cases (~1%) Online Reorgs abend because the TOTALROWS column in the SYSTABLESPACESTATS are wrong. Then we do Runstats and update the RTS. The question is, why the number of rows is not externalized after doing a RUNSTATS. The value after...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 3 Future consideration

New message indicating how many rows are deleted in SYSCOPY and SYSLGRNX by MODIFY RECOVERY

Sometimes MODIFY RECOVERY does something although not visible by existing messages. With this enhancement customer can see what was done in the joblog and customer do not need to check SYSCOPY and SYSLGRNX before MODIFY RECOVERY and afterwards to ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

When LOAD Utility fails due to claimers, locks in the object, this should be reported as with REORG and switch phase

When LOAD Utility fails due to claimers, locks in the object, this should be reported as with REORG and switch phase
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

UTILITY CHECK DATA ENHANCEMENT

We would like to add feature to the CHECK UTILITY to support list of tabelspaces that are in CHECK-PENDING status to be checked. In a case we have some tables in CHECK-PENDING status and the tables have RI we need to know the connection between th...
over 7 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

RUNSTATS TABLESPACE INDEX (ALL) NPI NO

At the moment only a RUNSTATS TABLESPACE with INDEX (ALL) is possible. When using DSNACCOX suggestions for a RUNSTATS may be generated only for one or few partitions of a PBR-TS. I therefore suggest a additional parameter (e.g. NPI YES/NO) to cons...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reorg Discard - documentation change

V13 Reorg Discard syntax introduces a new option NOCHECKPEND. When this option is used and the Reorg discards data from a parent row then the utility will NOT set the CHECKPEND on the child tables. This results in an referentially inconsistent dat...
10 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration