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Status Under review
Workspace Db2 for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 25, 2026

Enhance CATMAINT output to show what has been done.

Please enhance the CATMAINT output to actually show what has been done.

Currently when we execute CATMAINT to change the catalog level, the following output is produced:

DSNU000I    083 15:07:58.39 DSNUGUTC - OUTPUT START FOR UTILITY, UTILID = RELODCAT
DSNU1044I   083 15:07:58.40 DSNUGTIS - PROCESSING SYSIN AS EBCDIC
DSNU050I    083 15:07:58.40 DSNUGUTC -  CATMAINT UPDATE LEVEL V13R1M501
DSNU750I    083 15:07:58.43 DSNUECM0 - CATMAINT UPDATE PHASE 1 STARTED
DSNU777I    083 15:07:58.43 DSNUECM0 - CATMAINT UPDATE STATUS - VERIFYING CATALOG IS AT CORRECT LEVEL FOR MIGRATION.
DSNU777I    083 15:07:58.43 DSNUECM0 - CATMAINT UPDATE STATUS - BEGINNING MIGRATION SQL PROCESSING PHASE.
DSNU777I    083 15:08:01.61 DSNUECM0 - CATMAINT UPDATE STATUS - UPDATING DIRECTORY WITH NEW RELEASE MARKER.
DSNU752I    083 15:08:01.67 DSNUECM0 - CATMAINT UPDATE PHASE 1 COMPLETED
DSNU010I    083 15:08:01.96 DSNUGBAC - UTILITY EXECUTION COMPLETE, HIGHEST RETURN CODE=0

This output doesn't provide any indication as to what has changed in the DB2 catalog or directory.

In order to determine what has changed, we have to execute a BMC Log Master report which provides the following output:

ALTER    TABLE         SYSIBM.SYSPACKAGE         ADD COLUMN: DEPLEVEL CHAR(1) NOT NULL
ALTER    TABLE         SYSIBM.SYSPACKCOPY        ADD COLUMN: DEPLEVEL CHAR(1) NOT NULL
ALTER    TABLE         SYSIBM.SYSPACKSTMT        ADD COLUMN: VALID CHAR(1)
ALTER    TABLE         SYSIBM.SYSINDEXSPACESTATS ADD COLUMN: REORGTOTALSPLITS INTEGER
ALTER    TABLE         SYSIBM.SYSINDEXSPACESTATS ADD COLUMN: REORGSPLITTIME BIGINT
ALTER    TABLE         SYSIBM.SYSINDEXSPACESTATS ADD COLUMN: REORGEXCSPLITS INTEGER
ALTER    TABLE         SYSIBM.SYSIXSPACESTATS_H  ADD COLUMN: REORGTOTALSPLITS INTEGER
ALTER    TABLE         SYSIBM.SYSIXSPACESTATS_H  ADD COLUMN: REORGSPLITTIME BIGINT
ALTER    TABLE         SYSIBM.SYSIXSPACESTATS_H  ADD COLUMN: REORGEXCSPLITS INTEGER
ALTER    TABLE         SYSIBM.SYSCOPY            ADD COLUMN: EVENTID BIGINT
ALTER    TABLESPACE    DSNDB06.SYSTSTSS          LOCKMAX: 0
ALTER    TABLESPACE    DSNDB06.SYSTSISS          LOCKMAX: 0
ALTER    TABLESPACE    DSNDB06.SYSTSTSH          LOCKMAX: 0
ALTER    TABLESPACE    DSNDB06.SYSTSISS          LOCKMAX: 0
ALTER    TABLESPACE    DSNDB06.SYSTSTSH          LOCKMAX: 0
ALTER    TABLESPACE    DSNDB06.SYSTSISH          LOCKMAX: 0
CREATE   TABLESPACE    DSNDB06.SYSTSPSC          CREATOR: SYSIBM   PGSIZE:  4 TYPE: UNIVERSAL   NUMPARTS:    1 SEGSIZE:   32 MAXPART
CREATE   TABLESPACE    DSNDB06.SYSTSPSD          CREATOR: SYSIBM   PGSIZE:  4 TYPE: UNIVERSAL   NUMPARTS:    1 SEGSIZE:   32 MAXPAR
CREATE   TABLE         SYSIBM.SYSPACKSTMTCOPY    IN: DSNDB06.SYSTSPSC  COLUMNS:  16
CREATE   TABLE         SYSIBM.SYSPACKSTMTDEP     IN: DSNDB06.SYSTSPSD  COLUMNS:  13
CREATE   INDEX         SYSIBM.DSNKTX01           ON: SYSIBM.SYSPACKSTMTCOPY      IN: DSNDB06.DSNKTX01  TYPE: NPSI UNIQUE RULE: U
CREATE   INDEX         SYSIBM.DSNKTX02           ON: SYSIBM.SYSPACKSTMTCOPY      IN: DSNDB06.DSNKTX02  TYPE: NPSI UNIQUE RULE: U
CREATE   INDEX         SYSIBM.DSNKNX01           ON: SYSIBM.SYSPACKSTMTDEP       IN: DSNDB06.DSNKNX01  TYPE: NPSI UNIQUE RULE: D
CREATE   INDEX         SYSIBM.DSNKNX02           ON: SYSIBM.SYSPACKSTMTDEP       IN: DSNDB06.DSNKNX02  TYPE: NPSI UNIQUE RULE: D
CREATE   TABLESPACE    DSNDB06.SYSTSUTL          CREATOR: SYSIBM   PGSIZE: 16 TYPE: UNIVERSAL   NUMPARTS:    1 SEGSIZE:   32 MAXPAR
CREATE   TABLE         SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES       IN: DSNDB06.SYSTSUTL  COLUMNS:  91
CREATE   INDEX         SYSIBM.DSNULX01           ON: SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES         IN: DSNDB06.DSNULX01  TYPE: NPSI UNIQUE RULE: U
CREATE   INDEX         SYSIBM.DSNULX02           ON: SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES         IN: DSNDB06.DSNULX02  TYPE: NPSI UNIQUE RULE: D
DROP     INDEX         SYSIBM.DSNKDX02           ON: SYSIBM.SYSPACKDEP           IN: DSNDB06.DSNKDX02  TYPE: NPSI UNIQUE RULE: D

               ALTER COMMENT  CREATE    DROP   GRANT   LABEL  RENAME  REVOKE    BIND    FREE  REBIND TRANSFER   TOTAL
INDEX               0       0       6       1       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       7
TABLE              10       0       3       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0      13
TABLESPACE          4       0       3       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       7
              -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL              14       0      12       1       0       0       0       0       0       0       0       0      27
              =======================================================================================================

Is there any chance that CATMAINT can be amended to produce something similar to the above BMC Log Master report please?

Thank you for your help.

Neil Dyer

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