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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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REORG needs to be enhanced to separate processing for partitions having dictionaries and no dictionaries

Using LISTDEF there are 4 partitions selected to be reorged. Row length 2284 bytes KEEPDICTIONARY used PART 5 - CARDF 50M, dictionary PART 6 - CARDF 60M, dictionary PART 11 - CARDF 110M, dictionary PART 80 - CARDF 150,000, no dictionary Since PART...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Parameter for RECOVER utility to avoid invalidation of RTS-information

We would like a parameter (e.g. KEEP_RTS) for the RECOVER utility to indicate that real-time statistics should not be set to NULL. After a RECOVER we need to run a REBUILD of any indexes that have not been recovered, and the REBUILD utility uses R...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Usability of REORG

When we did a big reorg of 32 billion records we missed some details in dis util functionality:1. how long every phase will take place, RTS knows the amount of records needs to be approx unloaded ...if its been done 1 billion in 2 hours means you ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Record all the options used on utility invocations

We have the idea to record online History to record all the options used on utility invocations.This feature would be very useful, to better control the execuctions and the history of utilities.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

allow the ability to generate REPLACE instead of RESUME YES

Sometimes you want to unload/load with REPLACE instead of RESUME YES. Need the unload utility able to generate LOAD REPLACE.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

When LOAD Utility fails due to claimers, locks in the object, this should be reported as with REORG and switch phase

When LOAD Utility fails due to claimers, locks in the object, this should be reported as with REORG and switch phase
about 3 years 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 ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improving CHECK utility performance: elapsed time and CPU

On our site, we have a PBG tablespace that, after loading, has the last partition in CHECK PENDING, the other partitions in RW. The IBM CHECK utility has taken a long time to complete the verification. We tried using the SCOPE PENDING parameter, b...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Allow TEMPLATE switching for more data sets in REORG and LOAD

Allow TEMPLATE switching in the REORG TABLESPACE, REORG INDEX and LOAD utilities for the necessary work files. For example, small objects may only require data sets with DSNTYPE BASIC and large objects may require data sets with DSNTYPE EXTREQ or ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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