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Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS

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Enable drop of more than one foreign key at a time

I want to drop 2 foreign keys on a table. I type the 'AL' line command next to the table and go to panel ADB21TA. I choose DROP FOREIGN KEY and go to panel ADB21TAH. I put a '?' in the Constraint field and go to panel ADB21TRI. In my example I hav...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Unload from full image copy

We would like to be able generate an unload job from the ICS panel.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reflect the actual count of objects returned from using the SARG command

I have used panel ADB21K and the count as an example below, but the misleading count occurs on other panels when you have used the SARG panel to filter. On panel ADB21K, I have 117 packages listed against a table. The count is shown at the top rig...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to execute more than one ALTER TABLESPACE statement at a time on Statement Execution Prompt screen

If we want to alter a series of tablespaces in a database, for example to move them to another bufferpool, change the Close Rule, compress them, or set them to LOGGED/NOT LOGGED, in Db2 Administration Tool we have to set up and execute the ALTER T...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DDL command doesn't generate comment

Table comments not displayed. The workaround is to query the catalog directly. The / command to show sysibm.systables does show a portion of the comment but not in it's entirety. Affected users are anyone using DDL command in Db2 Adminst...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

When using Exclude for Target/Source and there is a mask, GOC should require only Target.

The application of the same exclude on SRC and TGT is going to be useful only in scenarios where the customer has a mask and wants to exclude the same objects on both SRC and TGT. In the case of only wanting to partially exclude either a SRC or a ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Package listing should show contoken, last_used and package name on the same screen

Package listing should show contoken, last_used and package name on the same screen for useability
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Restart Admin Tool Execution Job without processing previously failed binds

We often expect binds to fail as part of a admin tool execution job. On restart we would like an option to be able to restart from the failed point without rerunning the previously failed commands.
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Display RTS values from the system catalog Table view

In the DB2 Admin tool we have to navigate to the tablespace to see the RTS values. What I would like to to be able to issue the RTS command against the table. All DBAs and a lot of application team members look at tables and want to RTS informatio...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Toggle between Capitalize object names YES and NO with a command.

Our shop have decided to use camel case notation for rest service objects. So the package names are in camel case as the collections they are places in and so on. We seldom user lower case in any other Db2 objects which means that we have “Capital...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration