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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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Enhance CHECK DATA utility: 1) to avoid SCANTAB and SORT when “SINGLE PARTITION IS SPECIFIED”; 2) to add PART range and parallelism option.

Currently Db2 does not provide either a parallelism option or PART range option for running CHECK DATA utility. Instead, as of Db2 V12, only ‘PART integer’ option is provided that repeating TABLESPACE database-name.table-space-name PART integer st...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future 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 ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Support

Customer would like the DB2 Unload and Load Utilities to support Partition by Growth (PBG) tablespaces.
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 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 ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSNZPARM to disable MODIFY option DELETEDS - compliance issue

It should be possible to disable the option for deleting physical datasets along with modifying recovery information for a tablespace, as in MODIFY RECOVERY TABLESPACE XXXXXX.XXXXXXXX DSNUM ALL DELETE AGE(32) DELETEDS There is increasingly more ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Record Conditional Image Copies That Are Bypassed In SYSIBM.SYSCOPY

We have a requirement to take daily image copies and to prove the copies were taken. When Db2 bypasses conditional copies from CHANGELIMIT (because NO CHANGE LIMIT MET) or from FULL NO (because TS CONTAINED NO CHANGED PAGES), Db2 does not record i...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Record A Shrlevel Change Image Copy As Shrlevel Reference When Possible

Shrlevel change image copies that are older than the available Db2 logs can not reliable be used for recovery because there may have been inflight URs at the time of the copy that got backed out after the copy finished. To recover to current, Db2 ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 5 Future consideration

Provide ROWID addition for PBG to PBR conversion in V13 ALTER statement.

In V13m we get to convert PBG tablespace to PBR by a simple ALTER statement. However, we will be forced to look for a partitioning key by working with application team. In the mean time, in V12 we have a feature called "Hidden ROWID support for pa...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration