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Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS

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Change Management - copy then modify previously saved dialog

We are a new user of the IBM tools. I'd like the ability to copy the existing saved dialog and then modify it (change environments). If there is an existing way to do this or workaround let me know. Editing the dataset "user.ADMIN.SAVEDLGS" isn't ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DB2 Administration Tool enhancement for runstats profiles

Enhance the Administration tool when accessing objects via the system catalog, table info. When using the RP(runstats profiles) at the table level it shows just a portion of the data in the profile_text column from the SYSIBM.SYSTABLES_PROFILES. E...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Provide wider coverage for Db2 catalogue generated utilities.

The Db2 catalogue allows users to use the U.R line command, for example, beside a tablespace to automatically generate a runstats batch job for that tablespace. However, it would also be nice if users had the option to use the U.R line command bes...
10 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Control DEFER YES/NO based on type of index

Provide mask to control the DEFER setting based on the UNIQUERULE(SYSINDEXES) of the index (either via REXX or standalone). Currently the REXX won’t handle this because the Db2 catalog row sent to masking is the SYSINDEXPART row which doesn’t cont...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Option to Ignore Column Order in Object Comparison

Object Comparison should allow you to ignore the column order when comparing tables. Columns can be added to tables in different order between Test and Production databases. As long as the column definitions match, you should be able to ignore dif...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

GOC - ADD PARTITION ENDING AT ('2021-02-10-23.59.59.999999'); generating TS drop/create instead of an alter

DB2 V12 allows ADD PARTITION ENDING AT ('2021-02-10-23.59.59.999999'); to be materialized with an Alter. GOC is using old DB2 rules which drop/create TS.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to edit and copy/paste in ignores and excludes as there is for masks.

The compare masks screen has functionality to edit (panelid ADB2C21 and option E goes to ADB2EDIT). Within edit session, I can copy and then swap to another screen which has another environment mask open then paste, make changes, and save. All sav...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Change to 'Active DB2 Systems' panel

When viewing the DB2 Tools Launchpad and the list of tools installed, enter '?' for a list of active SSIDs. The list that returns includes all DB2 Systems by name, but only the descriptions of the subsystems that match entries in the currently...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Templates for AUTO REORG functionality in ADBTEP2 program

We are executing a worklist and with following options in the input stream, we can change 2 templates (ADBREORG and ADBCOPY) but not others (ADBPUNCH and ADBDISC) : ADMIN REORG TEMPLATE ADBREORG ... ADMIN COPY TEMPLATE ADBCOPY ... But we would li...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support IDAA v7.5

When I go into DB2 Admin Tool and use the Accelerator Trace Details (Z;AC and TR for an accelerator) I find that the option to choose "Manually collected diagnostic information (folder additional_support_info)" and sub option "Collect Backend Envi...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3