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RUNSTATS TABLESPACE on one TS partition scans all partitions of partitioned indexes

We encountered that the RUNSTATS on one TABLESPACE partition via RUNSTATS TABLESPACE ... PART or via LISTDEF INCLUDE TABLESPACE ... PARTLEVEL scans all partitions of a partitioned index. Therefore the runtime and the zIIP time of the jobs are extr...
10 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

UTILITY wait for other Utility

Consider a Utility A executing on an Db2-object (example LOAD) and another incompatible Utility B trying to acquire drain on the same Db2-object (example QUIESCE). Db2 immediately rejects this Utility B, without waiting. We suggest a new Utility o...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

RUNSTATS to Always Sample at least one row

Modify RUNSTATS utility to always sample at least one row of every non-empty TS/partition event when TABLESAMPLE number is low.
about 2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Print LOAD Report on separated DDNAME

During the execution of the LOAD utility, when a record is discarded, it appears first in the classification phase (limited to 2000 occurrences) and then in the load report (no limit). We want the report to be printed in a different DDNAME, differ...
10 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Under review

ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY

ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY The DB2 redirected recovery functionality allows RECOVER utility to be used to redirect the recovery of an object (the source) to another object (the target). The source and target objec...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 6 Future consideration

Add AMI name regexe Option into Symphony HostFactory AWS template

Currently, Our AMI name alias remain constant for successive iterations such as symphony-worker-ami-<time stamp> as AMI version control. We request IBM can add option by providing AMI name instead of static imageID. Symphony HostFactory can ...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Support SORTWK with EAV

We run a REORG on a tablepace (~5TB) with 3 IXs and need ~17TB sort space. One of the IX (an NPI) needs ~15TB. We had a pool with 30TB, but this does not help/count. Reason: As the allocation of the SORTWKs by DB2 is limited to 10TB (255 * the lim...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

REORG PREFORMAT of 1 TB page set should be interruptable

With PH64760 one can create 1TB page sets in one step. If one runs a REORG PREFORMAT on such large objects, the Media Manager Preformat task is not interruptable. Such a size of 1TB needs ~1.5hours to preformat the page set. In the meanwhile neith...
9 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to enable configurable limits on LIM message queue

The IBM Spectrum Symphony product currently sets a default LIM message queue limit of 10,000. Under high workload demands with aggressive scale-in/out requirements, this limit is sometimes exceeded, leading to missed requests and performance degra...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

DIS UTIL could show also the Db2 Object involved

DISPLAY UTIL(*) is used daily, but it doesnt't show the Object involved/affected. This info is already in SYSUTILX so it seems to be possible to obtain it directly with the command Display. Currently, the DBA, Operator or Developer has to deal ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 9 Functionality already exists