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Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS

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DDL and pending DDL

In admin Tool - Gen command lets the user control the DDL scope as well as the pending DDL scope. So the user can control if the DDL generated includes the pending change or presents the DDL excluding the pending change. The DDL command against an...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Enable REORG REBALANCE option in Object Comparison

At option 5 on OC comparison panel we can customize utility options, including for REORG tablespaces. However option REBALANCE is grayed out not allowing DBAs to select that option for partition-by-range tablespaces.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Rebuild indexes from index or table panel

We would like to be able to generate JCL for rebuilding one or more indexes from the index or table panel.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Use of SYSTEMPL instead of templates in Db2 tables/ISPF profile

We would like to be able to use the SYSTEMPL data set in Admin instead of having to create entries in Db2 tables/ISPF profile. We use templates and would like be sure that the same templates are used everywhere. This is supported in AOC but not in...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

AOC should support template switching

We use templates that allocate image copy to disk when the size is below 300 MB and then switch to another template allocating to tape when larger. AOC does not support this.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Have GEN and DDL generate Implicit objects but have them commented out for future use if needed

A Case was opened with IBM for GOC batch. Support could never recreate it using the DDL which was provided. It was later found out that this DB had implicit objects. The implicit objects in the DDL member provided were never generated. I am purpos...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to arrange columns

Db2 Admin provides a lot of columns in the panels with the possibility to scroll left and right.On some panels like "Information from SYSIBM.SYSCOPY" ADB21I the for me important information like ICTYPE is on the 6th right page, far away from the f...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Generate DDL for implicitly created XML tables and tablespaces

Today Admin tool cannot really handle implicitly created XML tables and tablespaces very well. It's very obscure to really understand what parameters were used when creating the table or if they differ from the source table. Using OCT via GOCCMDDF...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Adding an exclude at the parent object such as TS, all dependent objects should be excluded without entering them

Currently to exclude an object such as TS, all dependent objects such as TB, VW, IX must entered also. This is extremely time consuming
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Position the cursor on the command line on panel ADB2PST@

I want to rebind more than 20 packages, so I am directed to panel ADB2PST@. If the fields Work statement list dsn ===> Work statement list name ===> are empty, the cursor gets positioned in the first field. When those fields are populate...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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