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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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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 ...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Materialize changes through partition rotation

We have some large tables that need to be updated from time to time. Each time a partition is rotated it is reset, so I think that could allow the table/tablespace change to be materialize. This would allow use to save the time and processing cost...
almost 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Load Utility: Extension of field selection criterion option by AND conditions

The Db2 for z/OS LOAD utility offers a field selection criterion for the INTO TABLE option via WHEN( ... = ...). Since increasingly complex data structures are used application developers want to specify more complex conditions for selection of to...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Idea For Limited Partition Locking for RI Related Objects

Lock just the partitions of related objects using a cascaded key structure when utilities are used to write to the database. Allows Db2 RI use to coexist with utility operation when it is impractical to lock all partitions of parents and children.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Be able to ALTER the partitioning key of a UTS PBR

Currently if the partitioning key needs to be changed this involves a UNLOAD/DROP/CREATE/LOAD which is disruptive. This needs to be changed to ALTER REORG.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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 ...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance DSNACCOX for Index Page Splits

We use DSNACCOX to trigger reorgs för tablespaces and indexes regularly. In Db2 13 new columns are added to SYSINDEXSPACESTATS to track index page splits. If a certain number of index page splits has occured since the last reorg of the index the i...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

new DDCARD SYSERROR

The output under sysprint can contain several thousand lines, especially when working with large listdefs. Then it is often very difficult to identify all the messages that lead to an RC8 or RC4. This is particularly true if there are several corr...
9 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future 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...
9 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Rearchitect the colgroup processing to be more granular using multiple sorts as opposed to a single sort or more intelligently avoid the colgroup sort altogether (when possible)

Looking at the job output you sent in, we can see that there are 18 colgroups specified. Based on the current design, we have a single sort for colgroup(s). There are 184310123 rows unloaded The no. of the rows passed to the single dstats s...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration