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Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS

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Object search screen - lengthen space for object names

Currently, the length of a table name or similar object is limited to 18 characters. This is an outdated standard since Db2 can accept much longer names. The pain point is that it's difficult to view or search for tables and impossible to copy/pas...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Ability to execute more than one ALTER TABLESPACE statement at a time on Statement Execution Prompt screen

If we want to alter a series of tablespaces in a database, for example to move them to another bufferpool, change the Close Rule, compress them, or set them to LOGGED/NOT LOGGED, in Db2 Administration Tool we have to set up and execute the ALTER T...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Sequence Object "end of range" Alert

We recently had a Production application fail because a Db2 sequence object reached the end of its range unexpectedly. This caused our web users to be unable to logon for a short period of time. DBAs are implementing external tooling to monitor se...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DROP Aliases listed with a single DROP command

Hello IBM In Panel ADB21A you can list ALIASES and there are some line commands. One of them is DROP. In some cases our DBA would need to drop a whole bunch of ALIASES at a time. And it is quite uncomfortable to acknowledge all of DROP one by on...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

When using Exclude for Target/Source and there is a mask, GOC should require only Target.

The application of the same exclude on SRC and TGT is going to be useful only in scenarios where the customer has a mask and wants to exclude the same objects on both SRC and TGT. In the case of only wanting to partially exclude either a SRC or a ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

All CM Batch to process DDL-DDL comparison

Allow CM Batch to process DDL-DDL comparison
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Package listing should show contoken, last_used and package name on the same screen

Package listing should show contoken, last_used and package name on the same screen for useability
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

GOC should have the intelligence to know when to generate a rebind not using option (A, M, N) on the panel which causes unnecessary rebinds generated

Rebinds should be generated when needed not by using option (A, M, N) . The help panels and user guide have been updated to clarify option "A" means "All relevant. Run the rebind on all packages that reference any of the modified objects." Option ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Remove messages such as Grant(source): Grantor=CONTROLM Grantee:DB2DEVGP (Not propagated) from the Compare Report. Compare Report should only list what is going be changed.

The Grant message clutters the report and should only reflect what is changing and not the obvious: Compare table source(CHIC.CAN_MRN_CMP_INF_CMC) and target(LOAD.CAN_MRN_CMP_INF_CMC) No changes to Table Grant(source): Grantor=CONTROLM Grantee:DB2...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Display RTS values from the system catalog Table view

In the DB2 Admin tool we have to navigate to the tablespace to see the RTS values. What I would like to to be able to issue the RTS command against the table. All DBAs and a lot of application team members look at tables and want to RTS informatio...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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