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Usability of REORG

When we did a big reorg of 32 billion records we missed some details in dis util functionality:1. how long every phase will take place, RTS knows the amount of records needs to be approx unloaded ...if its been done 1 billion in 2 hours means you ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

For tables w/ columns that are generated by default, update the internal sequence with the next value for the column

When using Qrep for DR , we have to make the target table which has generated numeric values to be generated by default. That is understood. In a DR scenario, when we fail over from the A to the B side, we have to run a script that gets the max va...

Enhance LOAD to support Load on DATABASE level

We suppose to enhance LOAD utility to allow LOAD DATABASE, intended to create the possibility of loading several or all tables of a database in one step using only one SYSREC file. Background: In the past, using segmented tablespaces, we had the o...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ASNMON improvements on z/OS

In a customer that has installed Q Replication, I've been working in deploy ASNMON task on z/OS side as replacement of IBM Infosphere Data Replication Dashboard tool that was deprecated. The ASN.IBMSNAP_CONDITIONS tables is used to configure the a...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 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...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Modify Recovery for COPY YES indexes

at the moment any SYSCOPY (and SYSLGRNX) entries for COPY YES indexes are deleted based on the corresponding action taken on the Tablespace (or partition). The strategy to keep the image copies and SYSCOPY related information for tablespace can be...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

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.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Q Capture/Db2 LUW: Replicate DROP COLUMN-operations

If the source table of an active subscription is altered by a DROP COLUMN operation, there is high risk of continuous data corruption on that table due to incorrect reading of Db2's transaction log entries from that time on. The current workaround...

Requesting Q-Replication capability from Non-Temporal to Temporal Table

This RFE/Idea is to request Q-Replication capability from Non-Temporal source to Temporal Table target. The existing Q-Replication only supports from Temporal to Temporal tables. For reporting within FTM (Financial Transaction Manager), there is a...

The Q-Replication apply programm shall be able to call the Db2 High Performance Unload (HPU) utility by the HPU stored procedure

Hello, in enterprise warehouse and OLTP areas of DB2 installations exist often very big databases with several tera bytes (often 100 of TBs) of data. For example we have several OLTP databases with more than 20TB and tables with billion of records...
almost 7 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration