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Add additional analysis to Recovery Plan creation to reduce overall Recovery Plan

We are currently testing DB2 Recovery Expert and our analysis is showing that we can have a very large Recovery Plan that includes objects that may not need reeovery. This might be due to the fact that Recovery Expert is analyzing the DB2 Catalog ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide an additional output DD for Recovery Plan messages that cause Plan create failures

We are testing Recovery Expert and as part of our POC one of our batch runs produced an extremely large amount of output in the ARYEXPLN DD (over 139,500 lines). The job ended with a RC=8 and an indication that a Recovery Plan could not be created...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Issue a warning or a report where a table or objects can be included in more than 1 profile

Since an application recovery profiles can cover multiple db2 objects e.g. say 20 tables, the same table can qualify for the object pattern in more than 1 application profile. when in a mass recovery scenario the first application profile will run...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Minimum dependencies for clients

The client libraries and dependencies of Symphony is around 1.4GB, which include dependencies for many languages.We are currently minimizing the size of all projects, so we need a version with the minimum libraries needed to make the client work. ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

EXTFILE size needs to be in TCz

The size of the EXTFILE is actually hard coded in the skeleton. Other than reducing the scan range (currently 3 and 7 hrs), we can recommend updating the skeleton. For the transaction scan, you can edit SARYSLIB members ARYINBX (currently line 90)...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Recover of freed packages

We would like to be able to recover freed packages. One of our clients always performs bind from a temporary library to avoid cluttering. This means it can require some investigation to find the correct DBRMs, especially if a lot of package were f...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Account for slots given to an application when startup_cores_if_no_history is configured

Description: In the current implementation, startup_cores_if_no_history are provisioned for each application regardless of the slots in the grid, which can lead to overprovision. We would like to request that if the application has access to slots...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

[Foundation][Diagnostic] - start time and end time for each rerun and reclaim

Currently, Symphony only log the last start time and end time. We request to log start/end time for each re-run or reclaim.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

[SMC][RFE][MS] - Support controlling physical sessions of a logical session under SMC

This is related to request ID:134371Each Symphony session submitted to SMC should have a global "ID" I like to see a CLI that can control (such as kill) all physical sessions of a logic session under SMC, through the global "ID" of the logical ses...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

[GUI][Usability] - checked consumer admin users on consumer properties

On the consumer properties view (WEBGUI), there is no way to list the checked user for this consumer only or make the checked user in the beginning. It is so hard to look through over 4000 user lists to get Consumer Admin, Consumer User, etc.
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release