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Request to add AArch64/ARM64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release.

Request to add ARM/AArch64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release. Required for power-efficiency and cost reduction. Required to provided by EOY 2024 to Q12025. Output from /proc/cpuinfo for processor info: For processor 0 to 128 p...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

Skip the zombie service instances when terminating ego service after having signaled and waited for a configurable time interval

Our observation, as it takes us forever to complete the termination of an ego service with zombie processes. Symphony termination action stuck with the ego service instance process tree when there is a zombie process exist. The only way of workaro...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Enable of changing SWITCHTIME in REORG by ALTER command

SWITCHTIME command in REORG is valuable parameter to control the timing to cancel AREOR status. However, the value is not changeable from the one which is determined when REORG is executed. To increase its flexibility, we request you to be able to...
6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

new DDCARD SYSERROR

The output under sysprint can contain several thousand lines, especially when working with large listdefs. Then it is often very difficult to identify all the messages that lead to an RC8 or RC4. This is particularly true if there are several corr...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

redirection and compatibility between 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4.0_64’ and 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4’ in 7.1.2 and that in 7.3

From: Dennis Xiao <dxiao@ca.ibm.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 4:28 PM To: Stuart, James <james.stuart@ubs.com>; Jeff Karmiol <jkarmiol@ca.ibm.com> Cc: Liao, Jiabin <jiabin.liao@ubs.com>; Qiu, David <david.qiu@ubs.co...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Submitted

Eliminate Reorgs failing with S513 & IEC146I 513-04 when reorging LOBs

The cause of the S513 error is due to the DB2 reorg utility trying to write two image copies in parallel (one for BASE and one for LOB) when a BASE UTS with LOB TS is being REORG’d and the specified template for image copy datasets has the STACK Y...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Idea For Limited Partition Locking for RI Related Objects

Lock just the partitions of related objects using a cascaded key structure when utilities are used to write to the database. Allows Db2 RI use to coexist with utility operation when it is impractical to lock all partitions of parents and children.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Please increase size of LAST_FAILURE_REASON column in Task Attributes table.

The SSM and SIM error log is saved in LAST_FAILURE_REASON column of Task Attributes table. It is set to 2048 chars currently. However, the error message is much longer than 2048 chars. So we can't see the whole error message in Task Attributes tab...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Submitted

Improved message text for DSNU537I

DSNU537I displays a page set which is not allowed in the list. As the utility can not know what the user intends to do, the text should be changed to a more general text without naming a pageset. Why: 1) Assume userA runs COPY with 4 objects, one ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Maintain Target Capacity Supportive for scheduled demand

To descrease the launching instance time, PIMCO use scheduled request for spot instance a lot. However Amazon EC2 terminates Spot Instances when they are interrupted. We request to support Maintain Target Capacity feature for spot fleet to maintai...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted