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    Support SORTWK with EAV

    We run a REORG on a tablepace (~5TB) with 3 IXs and need ~17TB sort space. One of the IX (an NPI) needs ~15TB. We had a pool with 30TB, but this does not help/count. Reason: As the allocation of the SORTWKs by DB2 is limited to 10TB (255 * the lim...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    REORG PREFORMAT of 1 TB page set should be interruptable

    With PH64760 one can create 1TB page sets in one step. If one runs a REORG PREFORMAT on such large objects, the Media Manager Preformat task is not interruptable. Such a size of 1TB needs ~1.5hours to preformat the page set. In the meanwhile neith...
    9 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    DIS UTIL could show also the Db2 Object involved

    DISPLAY UTIL(*) is used daily, but it doesnt't show the Object involved/affected. This info is already in SYSUTILX so it seems to be possible to obtain it directly with the command Display. Currently, the DBA, Operator or Developer has to deal ...
    almost 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 9 Functionality already exists

    Add permissions for queries

    In customer setups we usually have to define "system queries" to be used by jobs, case investigation, hyperlinks. It is a very common scenario when users change such queries to perform some searches and break the system setup- hyperlinks showing e...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 1 Future consideration

    Enhanced recovery performance improvement

    We encountered significant recovery performance issues (recovery time increasing exponentially as the number of objects rises) and the analysis in a Case showed that this was due to enhanced recovery’s non target index serialization (our backups a...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Help for complex utilities

    For complex utilities (I primarily mean REORG here but copy and runstats are getting there!) an addition to the OPTIONS with a new keyword SHOW or EXPLAIN or HELP. This would change the utility to be PREVIEW in all cases! And it will just output t...
    about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    ADD OPTION ON THE RECOVER UTILITY

    After open the TS012026353, IBM solve the problem by execute an DIAGNOSE TYPE(8103) to avoid the multiple messages XCF between members of DataSharing. A new parameters of RECOVER would be welcome
    over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    DISPLAY UTIL should show more detailed count for the displayed phases

    We have a REBUILD IX job with a table which has 8.5 billion rows. During the rebuild DIS UTIL shows for the UNLOAD phase a higher count than 8.5 billion e.g 10 billion or more. Therefore I openend a case how could it be that this number is higher ...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    There should be a Db2 utility to delete rows from SYSIBM.SYSOBJEVENTS and SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES

    Currently there is no to delete rows from SYSIBM.SYSOBJEVENTS and SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES and these tables will keep growing. All sites with these tables enabled require this. The utility could be an extension of the functionality of "MODIFY RECOVERY"...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Rule action to remove items from Risk Lists

    Today, you can add items to a Risk List through a Rule Action. The idea here would be to add the ability to remove items from a Risk List through a Rule Action.
    5 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

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