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Relationship Editor - Selecting several related items at one time

Real-life scenario is that user has to add several related items to a product in persona-based UI. For example user need to create a relationship from item A to 25 items 1 ....25. Currently user has to open the editor, search and select items in r...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 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

Lookup tables history tracking

Add a functionality similar to Audit History on catalogs to lookup tables. On lookup tables there is currently no way to track changes so any object that requires any history tracking needs to be defined as a catalog. This is many times unnecessar...
6 months ago in Product Master 0 Under review

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

REBUILD - After recovery of TS is NPSI improvement

Recovered SEMHNSA Partition 1 which has a NPSI. Rebuild has no idea that only partition 1 was recovered and rebuilds all the partitions for NPSI XEMHUNSA. Believe improvements need to be made to make the REBUILD know that only partition 1 needs to...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 6 Is a defect

No Implicit Runstats when running Reorg that materializes pending DDL

When a REORG is run to materialize a pending DDL change, the REORG enforces an inline statistics (RUNSTATS) even though no statistics keywork is added to the REORG statement/card. it defaults to TABLE(ALL) INDEX(ALL). This obviously can impact acc...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration