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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 24, 2024

DISPLAY UTIL should show more detailed count for the displayed phases

We have a REBUILD IX job with a table which has 8.5 billion rows. During the rebuild DIS UTIL shows for the UNLOAD phase a higher count than 8.5 billion e.g 10 billion or more. Therefore I openend a case how could it be that this number is higher the total rows in the table. 

The simple answer is because of parallel processing the count for the UNLOAD phase gets incremented from unload and built. This count sums up the value of both. So for us the counter for the UNLOAD phase is useless if parallel processing is happening. Because of that you can't see on which point the UNLOAD phase really is. Furthermore you can't predict how long the REBUILD IX will run.

Our requirement is that there will be two new messages which show detailed how many unload und built keys are done additional to the current sum up value. This will help to better understand how much work was done at the moment and how long it maybe will take until it is finished.

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