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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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REORG Option to set Return Code for drain failure or deadline

At present we have to manually intervene every time a REORG fails with a DRAIN FAIL or DEADLINE hit, because the job finishes with RC8. However, these scenarios are both common and expected BAU situations - so we would like to handle them automati...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Parallel Unload of Partitioned Table including Lob columns is not possible

We try to unload a partioned Tablespace with a Lob column into Datasetswith spanned format.But is unload into one Datset and i do not see the following messageDSNU1201I 326 13:35:11.03 DSNUUNLD - PARTITIONS WILL BE UNLOADED IN PARALLEL We have lar...
12 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Parameter for RECOVER utility to avoid invalidation of RTS-information

We would like a parameter (e.g. KEEP_RTS) for the RECOVER utility to indicate that real-time statistics should not be set to NULL. After a RECOVER we need to run a REBUILD of any indexes that have not been recovered, and the REBUILD utility uses R...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

New message indicating how many rows are deleted in SYSCOPY and SYSLGRNX by MODIFY RECOVERY

Sometimes MODIFY RECOVERY does something although not visible by existing messages. With this enhancement customer can see what was done in the joblog and customer do not need to check SYSCOPY and SYSLGRNX before MODIFY RECOVERY and afterwards to ...
7 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

LOAD RESUME SHRLEVEL REFERENCE

We use LOAD REPLACE SHRLEVEL REFERENCE since the first day it was delivered. It solves so many problems. One of the things it solves is that if the load terminates/abends or we ourselves for any reason has to cancel the job the tablespace is back ...
7 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow REORG TABLESPACE DROP_PART on PBG UTS with a DATA CAPTURE CHANGES table

We have a near 24x7x365 application with IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IIDR) Multi-Uni Queue Replication configured between two Db2 subsystems. A Multi-Uni configuration is an IBM solution for bi-directional replication that is configured with ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

allow the ability to generate REPLACE instead of RESUME YES

Sometimes you want to unload/load with REPLACE instead of RESUME YES. Need the unload utility able to generate LOAD REPLACE.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow TEMPLATE switching for more data sets in REORG and LOAD

Allow TEMPLATE switching in the REORG TABLESPACE, REORG INDEX and LOAD utilities for the necessary work files. For example, small objects may only require data sets with DSNTYPE BASIC and large objects may require data sets with DSNTYPE EXTREQ or ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SYSPUNCH - be able to suppress NUMRECS

Certain processes use load cards created from unload utility using LIMIT 0. This creates NUMRECS 0 that needs to be removed prior to the LOAD.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

UTILITY CHECK DATA ENHANCEMENT

We would like to add feature to the CHECK UTILITY to support list of tabelspaces that are in CHECK-PENDING status to be checked. In a case we have some tables in CHECK-PENDING status and the tables have RI we need to know the connection between th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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