Skip to Main Content
IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


Status Functionality already exists
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 12, 2023

Run REORG only for ALTERs that placed in AREOR (exclude AREO*) and needed for newly deployed modules (Bind/Rebind) eg DROP COLUMN

Currently, the RUN_REORG_REBUILD option has the following characteristics

M = Mandatory. Generate REORG utility statements to remove REORG pending conditions. (only Reorg Pending)
A = All relevant. Generate all needed REORG utility statements to fully implement the effects of the changes (AREO* and AREOR) …
N = None. No REORG utility statements are generated.

We need a way to generate a reorg for all necessary pending states (AREOR and REORG PENDING) to materialize the changes for subsequent processes.
Tables with an AREO* state do not prevent any processing and can be cleaned up by the standard operating in our post-process.

Example:
ALTER T1 DROP COL;

Description:
With the ALTER, the table is placed in an advisory REORG-pending (AREOR) state.
A bind for a new Programm can only take place when the pending state has been removed.
The reorg is highly recommended to avoid outage and it is also necessary for the deployment process to be executed.

For this, another option like

D = DEFERED. Generate REORG utility Statements to remove AREOR pending conditions (for necessary deferred changes)

would make sense in order to distinguish between the optional and the required ones when generating reorgs.

With option "A", too many AREO* would be directly remedied, which could better be carried out at low load times.

Alternatively, it would also be possible to adjust the MANDANTORY option so that in future all pending states are considered that prevent further unrestricted processing. (REORG PENDING and AREOR)

Needed By Quarter
  • Admin
    Chris Pomasl
    Reply
    |
    Oct 31, 2023

    As discussed and acknowledged with the original poster:

    The behaviour with run_reorg_rebuild = 'M' obviously corresponds to our wish.

    RUN_REORG_REBUILD
    Specifies whether to generate REORG table space and REBUILD index utility jobs after applying the changes from the analyze process, the purpose of which is to make the target operational.
    Values:

    M
    Mandatory. Generate REORG utility statements to remove REORG-pending conditions.

    A
    All relevant. Generate all needed REORG utility statements to fully implement the effects of the changes, for example, space parameter changes.

    N
    None. No REORG utility statements are generated. This option is invalid if you specified NO for ALLOW_ROTATE_PARTS.

    Default:
    N

  • Admin
    Chris Pomasl
    Reply
    |
    Sep 26, 2023

    Thank you for the idea. We are still processing the details/impact for this idea, and it is taking longer than expected. Please know that we have not forgotten you.

    Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS team.