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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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Modify redirected recovery to eliminate the need for repair catalog of target

Modify redirected recovery to eliminate the need for repair catalog of target The relatively new Db2 utility enhancement of redirected recovery is very useful When recovering a target tablespace from another tablespace, the IBM documentation is ve...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow for Multiple Columns on LOAD INTO TABLE WHEN Criteria

We recently converted from BMC to IBM Db2 utilities. It would be very useful if multiple column names could be specified on the WHEN criteria for the Db2 LOAD utility. This would also make the functionality similar to the WHEN criteria of REORG WI...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow redirected recovery for catalog objects

I accidentally dropped a tablespace and had to recreate it. I wasn't sure about the table-structure at the time the last FIC was done so I wanted to do a redirected recovery for some catalog tables (e.g. SYSIBM.SYSCOLUMNS) to be able to recognize ...
5 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Non-Sorting, online way to encrypt Db2 Datasets

Currently to encrypt Db2 datasets in an online fashion we use the REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE. For large tablespaces, or well-organized tablespaces, this incurs the cost of reorganizing (sorting mostly) that we would rather not have just to encrypt. We ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Alter PBG to PBR should be possible for tables with LOBs

The statement ALTER PARTITIONING TO PARTITION BY RANGE should be applicable for tables with LOB's. One of the main drivers for us to convert from PBG's to PBR's is that our LOB tablespaces are growing very large. As the base tables usually only co...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Automatically Perform a Display with Claimers when Utilities Cannot Perform a Drain on an Object

We recently migrated from BMC Utilities for Db2 to IBM Utilities. One feature that is sorely missed is that when the BMC Utilities would fail to drain because other processes had a claim on the object, BMC Utilities would perform a display with cl...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

zSort information in Utilities History

When running some utilities Db2 can choose to use zSort. In Utilities History (SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES). there is a column SORTNAME where you can see if DSSORT or DB2SORT has been used. The information if zSort has been used or not is vital as it can ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

REORG PART LEVEL PBG tablespace

When I run a PART LEVEL REORG (PART 1 in this case) of a PBG tablespace and the current data doesn't fit into its original partition DB2 adds a new partition at the end and uses it for the "overflow" data, although all the already existing partiti...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

RUNSTATS TABLESPACE INDEX (ALL) NPI NO

At the moment only a RUNSTATS TABLESPACE with INDEX (ALL) is possible. When using DSNACCOX suggestions for a RUNSTATS may be generated only for one or few partitions of a PBR-TS. I therefore suggest a additional parameter (e.g. NPI YES/NO) to cons...
7 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Avoid ending with an abend for utilities with AUX YES when TEMPLATE goes to TAPE with STACK YES.

This would help to reduce the number of dump and "wrong" or "bad" opinion about Db2 z/OS to our customers. It would also help us to reduce the number of incidents.
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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