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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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Add "EXCEPTION" parameter to CHECK INDEX to discontinue processing after N disrepancies

Sometimes when you run CHECK INDEX you encounter a huge number of discrepancies so much so that the utility keeps running and running and producing an excessive amount of output -messages regarding the details of the discrepancies. In some cases y...
12 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Intelligent Online Reorg Switch time calculation

In a 24 hour online Db2 environment it can be difficult to complete an online REORG because the VSAM switch phase may fail, due to the activity on the tablespace being too high. The idea is to use the system monitors or a log analyzer tool to look...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Include repair catalog in the redirected recover

It should not be necessary to explicitely run a repair catalog after running a redirected recover. The redirected recover should adjust the version information in the catalog itself.
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Automatic deletion of empty SYSDISC datasets

BMC LOAD...DELETEFILES YES SYSDISC YES causes an empty SYSDISC file to be deleted. Also it appears this happens automatically when PARALLEL is used with the IBM utility but only with PARALLEL.
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

DB2z Custom Routing of Utility Messages to DDs

Sometimes you need to quickly review only certain utility messages from a very large output of several utility executions, or only a few where there might've been many, many objects processed. It is very awkward to have to go through perhaps thous...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Future 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 ...
1 day ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

USING LOADINCURSOR for XML COLUMN even nullable

We have a table with a XML column defined NOT NULL. We periodically transfer data from production to preproduction using unload/load.Because XML column has value nobody have to read after having transfered data applications execute a sql update fo...
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

Load into util next to a reorg

As discussed in IDUG EMEA 2023 Praag, i gave a presentation about reorg a big table that took 8 days. If the table cant be accessed, a recover to that point would take 6 hours. So table created at front that can have the data already loaded until ...
6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Track REORGs with SHRLEVEL NONE

We do not want anyone to run a REORG with SHRLEVEL NONE. If they do we might end up with big problems, especially if it abends or we have to terminate it. We see no reason to use SHRLEVEL NONE with REORG any more unless it is a huge tables that ca...
7 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Change behavior of option PARALLEL(0) for REORG TABLESPACE

We had a problem recently when a reorg of a tablespace with 100 partitions consumed far too much real storage. We ran the reorg with PARALLEL(0) and it choose to use 188 parallel tasks. That was probably OK at the beginning of the execution but no...
9 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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