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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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MODIFY with DELETEDS and DSN not cataloged printing message as ERROR... and completing with RC4. Should be WARNING instead of ERROR.

Reviewing the output, it is concerning seeing a message with ERROR in the text. DSNU1323I ERROR DELETING IMAGE COPY DATA SET FOR object-type.object-qualifier.object-name DSNUM part-number DSN=dataset-name This is not an ERROR but a fact of lif...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Reorg Index functionality should allow parallel partition processing of a multi-part selection as per Reorg Tablespace.

It is best practice to minimise the exposure of mission critical application workload to the impact of reorg drain activity. It is best practice to minimise the cpu, i/o and elapse time of database maintenance activity which is often restricted to...
over 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.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Db2 data page validation

Db2 broken data page was copied by Image Copy Utility, which rendered image copy unusable. Check Page option was not sufficient to detect broken page. Mitigation doesn't exist. Data are lost. Proposal: Create separate tool and/or enhanced Copy Uti...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 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 ...
about 2 years 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...
about 2 years 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 ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Check Index and Rebuild Index Combined in one Process

If a corrupt index is suspected then usual process is to 1. Run a Check Index 2. If an error is reported Run a Rebuild Index to fix the error. However part of the processing done by the Check Index could be utilized by the Rebuild Index. The Check...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Implement Inline Image Copies for COPY YES Indexes during Reorg utility operations

There appears to be expected functionality missing within DB2 Reorg Index (and Tablespace) utility operations to allow "normal" Image Copies to be taken inline for Indexes that have been defined as COPY YES similar to the inline Image Copies that ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Restart of redirected recover

It should be possible to restart redirected recover in the same manner as you can restart the standard recover utility. When running redirected recover of a large group of tables, it is a waste of time to have to restart if an error is encountered...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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