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Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS

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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

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

DDL and pending DDL

In admin Tool - Gen command lets the user control the DDL scope as well as the pending DDL scope. So the user can control if the DDL generated includes the pending change or presents the DDL excluding the pending change. The DDL command against an...
10 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Object search screen - lengthen space for object names

Currently, the length of a table name or similar object is limited to 18 characters. This is an outdated standard since Db2 can accept much longer names. The pain point is that it's difficult to view or search for tables and impossible to copy/pas...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

DROP Aliases listed with a single DROP command

Hello IBM In Panel ADB21A you can list ALIASES and there are some line commands. One of them is DROP. In some cases our DBA would need to drop a whole bunch of ALIASES at a time. And it is quite uncomfortable to acknowledge all of DROP one by ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

An enhancement to Object Compare

Our main user of Object Compare is having a problem using the product
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

provide option for DDL command to include RI RFE 125685

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=125685 Customer wants for DDL command that AOC also generates the DDL for RI dependant relationships Use Case Customer does not know which tables are ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Panel ADB21TAV - Display Limit Key Values, displaying logical partitions. Panels needs to be enhanced to show physical partition also.

Showing the logical partition is misleading on this panel. Need to also show physical partition.
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Line command '?' does not work on all menus, should be made consistent

In the Db2 Administration Tool v12, under the “Db2 system catalog” option, on the “Application Plans” and the “Table Authorizations” menus, the “?” line command does not work like it does on other menus. It returns an “Invalid line cmd” message.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release