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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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Support Spanned Record Format in Reorg Discard Dataset

We would like Discard Lob's from a Table and Load them into a Partner Table. The Discard Dataset can not exceed 32K, so it is not possible. With Unload Utility it is possible to define Spanned Yes for SYSREC. It would be helpful if you could suppo...
10 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow LISTDEF to be used by REPAIR where appropriate at partition level that includes a range (1:50)

Allow LISTDEF with REPAIR, such as turning off AREO* (NOAREORPENDSTAR) at partition level. This would include a from partlevel to to partlevel. This would reduce the number of REPAIRs that need to be generated.
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSNTYPE(PIPE) support for TEMPLATE utility

Would like to be able to dynamically allocate a z/OS Unix Named Pipe via the TEMPLATE utility. LOADing to and UNLOADing from named pipes is extremely useful, for example, to copy data between different Db2 systems on the same z/OS image. In JCL, t...
10 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide Db2 utility messages regarding the usage (or not) of the Large Block Interface

The Large Block Interface (LBI) provided by z/OS can be used by Db2 utilities (such as COPY) to greatly reduce the utility runtime of when creating data sets on tape devices. The LBI must first be enabled through the DEVSUPxx member of SYS1.PARMLI...
over 2 years 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

Modify the message when Load utility encounter table not found.

Sometimes we unload many tables from source DB2 to another one. If some tables do not exist in the target DB2, the load utility will fail with RC=8. this error message is mixed with ordinary information and ends with "I" in a big jobout file. For ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future 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

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...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance CHECK DATA utility: 1) to avoid SCANTAB and SORT when “SINGLE PARTITION IS SPECIFIED”; 2) to add PART range and parallelism option.

Currently Db2 does not provide either a parallelism option or PART range option for running CHECK DATA utility. Instead, as of Db2 V12, only ‘PART integer’ option is provided that repeating TABLESPACE database-name.table-space-name PART integer st...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Force generation of IGNOREFIELDS YES

Need the ability to be able to generate IGNOREFIELDS YES. In some cases we load into UAT environments where the new column is not there yet
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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