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Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS

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provide option for DDL command to include RI RFE 125685

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=125685 Customer wants for DDL command that AOC also generates the DDL for RI dependant relationships Use Case Customer does not know which tables are ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

MIG panel option for HPU Unload to allow selection of 'REPLACE' in LOADOPTS parm RFE 124519

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=124519 When driving HPU through a MIG Data unload/load the resulting load is always generated as RESUME YES.If the target tables already exist with data then we n...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

ADB21TC Dropping more than 1 column gets Select only one

ADM only allows dropping one column at a time. You must complete the drop, the revisit the panel again and again to drop all the columns. ADM should allow multiple D entries and one press Enter to handle this.
about 1 month ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

Index and index partition's DSSIZE

Information about indexes and index partitions should show DSSIZE. Today, the only way to see index DSSIZE and index partition's individually set DSSIZE is to type DDL as a line command before the index name, or type B on the command line when the...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

PAGENUM option for Admin Tool Mask

I will like an option to change or enforce PAGENUM attribute using the MASK(ing) feature available in Admin Tool. This will be useful to control PAGENUM attribute for PBR tablespaces for our site.
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Create user interface for --#SET ACCEPT_RC override

Allow user to specify one or more acceptable SQL return codes in the MIG process prior to the DDL being generated.
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Mask implicit parameters

We would like the mask to honour any specifications included in it regardless as to whether the parameter is included in the DDL. So, for instance, objects may default to DEFINE YES. The MASK may be setup to change all objects to DEFINE NO. We wou...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Scope source objects from objects defined in target

It is not possible to scope source objects from the objects defined in the target version or DDL file. In the 'Specify Compare Target' panel there is an option 4 'Target is from the DB2 Catalog and the objects are automatically selected based on t...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Restart Admin Tool Execution Job without processing previously failed binds

We often expect binds to fail as part of a admin tool execution job. On restart we would like an option to be able to restart from the failed point without rerunning the previously failed commands.
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

implementation of a “ADMIN ALTER TABLE TB1 INSERT COLUMN C AFTER B” functionality

AHA request for Db2 Administration Tool We are using another vendors DB2 database management solution and have developed a fully automated batch process which propagates DDL changes to many DB2 for z/OS DB2 systems. Our application developers use ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration