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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

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

IMS environments should be implemented for the AD PL1 compiler so AD would show the IBM DBs correctly used in PL1 programs.

Application Discovery (AD) Analyze Client doesn't show IMS DB names correctly in IMS/DB Usage analysis. This is because even though the PL1 compiler in AD Build Client recongnizes PLITDLI calls as calls to IMS databases, PCB parameters from the ma...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

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

Ordering Impact Analysis Report

The Impact Analysis Report answer I get from this option is a poorly organized document that does not allow for analyzing by element. In other words, it does not permit analyzing a program, a JCL, etc., since it is organized by variable and file n...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

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

ADDI should be compatible to work with CICS CPSM

Lot of customer of ADDI has CICS CPSM implemented and they don't have CICS CSD. And currently ADDI is not compatible with CICS CPSM so it blocking for customers to generated reports from ADDI like transaction call graph and other reports related t...
5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review