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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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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.
over 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 ...
over 1 year 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...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future 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
almost 3 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.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under 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 ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

V12-CERT-2017 - Reorg Discard registration in SYSCOPY.

We are facing more requirements for documentation of all processes that delete data. Reorg discard remove data from a table very efficient. We do not have any documentation in the DB2 system, that Reorg has discarded data. The only documentation i...
over 7 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Provide capability for SLB Utility to timeout when HSM does not respond to backup request.

Currently the SLB utility sits in a wait state until ackowledgement of the backup request is returned from HSM. During this time a lock SYS_PITR is is held that prevents any DFDSS activity by Db2. This can lead to Db2 thread failures and data inco...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

QUIESCE utility: Add the functionality described in the REORG drain-spec to the QUIESCE utility

Currently the QUIESCE utility has no capability to mitigate its impact on end user application workloads like the REORG utility does via its drain-spec functionality.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

SYSPUNCH - be able to suppress NUMRECS

Certain processes use load cards created from unload utility using LIMIT 0. This creates NUMRECS 0 that needs to be removed prior to the LOAD.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration