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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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Provide Db2 utility messages regarding the usage (or not) of the Large Block Interface

The Large Block Interface (LBI) provided by z/OS can be used by Db2 utilities (such as COPY) to greatly reduce the utility runtime of when creating data sets on tape devices. The LBI must first be enabled through the DEVSUPxx member of SYS1.PARMLI...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow TEMPLATE switching for more data sets in REORG and LOAD

Allow TEMPLATE switching in the REORG TABLESPACE, REORG INDEX and LOAD utilities for the necessary work files. For example, small objects may only require data sets with DSNTYPE BASIC and large objects may require data sets with DSNTYPE EXTREQ or ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance the message "table XXXX not found" during running load Utility.

We actually want DB2 load utilities to display consistent error messages that are easy to find. It should definitely be an ‘E’rror, not a ‘W’arning or ‘I’nformational message’, but it should also contains something like ‘UNSCCESSFUL’, or ‘ERROR’, ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

LOAD utility - Replace Duplicate row entries under RESUME YES option

When we try to use the DSNUTILB utility to LOAD data into a DB2 table with RESUME YES option, where we need to Load some set of records, which do have same Primary key values already existing in the Target table, then those records to be loaded ar...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Modify the message when Load utility encounter table not found.

Sometimes we unload many tables from source DB2 to another one. If some tables do not exist in the target DB2, the load utility will fail with RC=8. this error message is mixed with ordinary information and ends with "I" in a big jobout file. For ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance DB2 Load WHEN specification

Coding the DB2 Load utility into table WHEN statement to allow for several specified values, not just one, is found in a given field, would be a useful enhancement.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

QUIESCE utility: Add the functionality described in the REORG drain-spec to the QUIESCE utility

Currently the QUIESCE utility has no capability to mitigate its impact on end user application workloads like the REORG utility does via its drain-spec functionality.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Ability to externalize Statistics to RTS after Runstats

In seldom cases (~1%) Online Reorgs abend because the TOTALROWS column in the SYSTABLESPACESTATS are wrong. Then we do Runstats and update the RTS. The question is, why the number of rows is not externalized after doing a RUNSTATS. The value after...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Automatic deletion of empty SYSDISC datasets

BMC LOAD...DELETEFILES YES SYSDISC YES causes an empty SYSDISC file to be deleted. Also it appears this happens automatically when PARALLEL is used with the IBM utility but only with PARALLEL.
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

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