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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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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...
almost 3 years 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.
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improved message text for DSNU537I

DSNU537I displays a page set which is not allowed in the list. As the utility can not know what the user intends to do, the text should be changed to a more general text without naming a pageset. Why: 1) Assume userA runs COPY with 4 objects, one ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance DSNU306I message

We are regularly getting DSNU306I, however the message does not provide any information about the claimers. It will be very productive if DSNU306I is enhanced to include the claimers. DSNU306I -DB2P 325 14:06:35.61 DSNUQUIA - UNABLE TO DRAIN WRI...
11 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Replacing data in System Temporal Tables using LOAD

In most tables data can be replaced using LOAD RESUME NO REPLACE. In System Termporal Tables it cannot. We want to use LOAD REPLACE to replace the existing data instead of having to delete the current data and then load with RESUME YES. The old da...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

REBUILD - After recovery of TS is NPSI improvement

Recovered SEMHNSA Partition 1 which has a NPSI. Rebuild has no idea that only partition 1 was recovered and rebuilds all the partitions for NPSI XEMHUNSA. Believe improvements need to be made to make the REBUILD know that only partition 1 needs to...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 6 Is a defect

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

Allow Load To Do Inline Image Copies Of LOB & XML Tablespaces

We have users running the Load utility and we require them to make inline image copies during the Load. We grant these users the LOAD database privilege so they can do loads with inline image copies. We don't grant these users the IMAGCOPY d...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future 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.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

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.
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 3 Not under consideration