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My subscriptions: Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS

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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...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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

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

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...
about 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

DB2 Admin Tool - Table Space Estimator by Average Partitioned Tablespace

The current Tool retrieves the row counts based on all partitions for a PBR tablespace. Ideal Detail: It would be convenient to estimate space based on average (or the maximum) of the partitioned tablespace rather than by the total row count of al...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Generate alters for tables with Lobs without providing ddl of auxiliary table

This idea results from Case TS005582671. the problem there is, that admintool-compare cannot generate reasonable WSL for altering a table that contains a lob-column. Actually the create-auxiliary-table-statement must also be provided, so that the ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration