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Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS

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MOVETB feature (FL 508) with DROP tablespace option enabled

The MOVETB option(with FL 508) has a shortcoming of not providing an option of DROP tablespace for the one which has moved ALL the tables from the source tablespace. Currently, we are forced to DROP the source TS separately outside of the generate...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ADMIN ACCELERATOR RESTORE Command availability

We are in the process of migrating home grown Accel administation processes for adding, loading, enabling, disabling, archiving and restoring tables to use the Admin Tool ADMIN ACCELERATOR command interface. The provided functionality looks great....
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Recover statements to LOGPOINT based in the base Image Copy type (Tablespace or partition level)

There was a request to recover all Tablespaces in a DB to an specific LRSN.In the Admin tool, at Database level the DBAs generated the Recover TOLOGPOINT statements by typing UTIL in the command line, then in the panel ADB2US selected option VP an...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Expand the scope of the RENAME DDL.

Moving forward with self-provisioning for developers, adherence to the company's naming standards and rules may be a necessity. The RENAME command should apply to table spaces, table schema, table, index, triggers, views, constraints, etc. This wa...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Admin Tool - MIG: do not allocate COL DD dataset for ADB2GEN in generate job.

When generating MIG DATA for objects in BATCH the program ADB28M allocates a COL DD dataset which is used in the generated unload JCL. This causes a security violation for unloads that are destined to run in production. Example: 1. In Panel ADB2...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Change DSNHDECP from being hard coded

Db2 Admin has the name DSNHDECP hard coded into the product and this may cause problems for MetLife – they had the same problem with Optim products and had to get it changed. So the change need is to make the naming of DSNHDECP a variable at insta...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Adding "with ur" at the end of the queries in admin tool

We want admin tool to add "with ur" at the end of the queries when creating queries.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

From the OC set the GENRELS = 'Y' option from the panel RFE 124526

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=124526 We would like to perform a "compare" between 2 tables ignoring any RI relations with the "child" tables.We do not want to ignore the Foreign Keys of t...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Admin Tool: Allow additional column filter options in ispf results panels RFE 123018

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=123018 In ISPF results panels after selecting objects (for instance, panel ADB21T), the filter options under the column headings appear to be limited to va...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Admin Tool: Include 'DATACLAS' in 'BP' Batch Job Utility Parameters panel

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=123021 Panel ADB2UPA has varoius space parameters. We wish to be able to specify a value for DATACLAS so that we can ensure that unload datasets are compressed. U...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release