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Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS

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Enable rebind of packages after a reorg in Automation Tool

I want to use Automation Tool to reorganise a tablespace to materialise a change to a UTS. I will issue the ALTER TABLESPACE MAXPARTITIONS nnn statement during the working day, which will put the tablespace into the AREOR state. I have a job profi...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Support SCOPE PENDING option in REBUILD utility

The SCOPE PENDING option has been available in the REBUILD INDEX DB2 utility. In the DB2 Automation Tool product this option cannot be specified.
9 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Include mask for DFSPARM

One of our customers working with REORG jobs built using Automation tool 4.3 have normally problems of "Sort Capacity exceeded". In order to solve this problem, our customer is using a customized skeleton HAAREORJ with syntaax: //DFSPARM DD * OPTI...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

we need an automated process to regenerate jobs to use the latest software

We have about 300 jobs with the tool Every time software is updated we need to regenerate all the jobs to use the new software. If we were allowed to use variables in the tool we would not need to do this. The process to regenerate the jobs is ver...
7 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to exclude packages from the rebind utility

Currently, rebind statements are generated based on what objects have been runstats'd -when included with a RUNSTATS utility profile- or everything -when only using the REBIND utility in the profile-. However, this also includes packages that are ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide ability to create a new profile by copying an existing profile.

This would make it easier to create new profiles without having to reenter all of the options. This would be particularly useful for Job profiles where there are many different options to select and values to fill in. Once you have a job profile w...
8 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

For RPN TS, each partition reorged need a separate IC tape drive, need a way to limit the number of tape drives per iteration of REORG for the IC

If 65 partitions of a RPN with NPSIs are being reorg at the same time, 65 IC tape drives would be required. That is excessive and probably all shops can't support that. Even when no NPSIs, this would be a problem. HAA generates LISTPARTS 4096 when...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Automation Tool incorrectly building RUNSTAT jobs when TS has NPSI being RUNSTAT

Unfortunately the product has been generating jobs incorrectly from the getgo for RUNSTATS. When using load balancing across 20 jobs, the partitions should be spread across the 20 jobs. This works when the NPSI is not having RUNSTATS. When the NPS...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add SORTDATA NO, RECLUSTER NO capability to generated reorgs for PDC PBR

PBRs having pending data change can be quite large resulting in a lot of temp storage needed for sorting data. Since the reorg is at TS level, this can be quite large for tables with huge CARDF. The following keywords should be able to be selected...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Add Upcoming Maintenance Window Summary to Main Product Panel

It would be very helpful to users of both the Db2 Automation Tool and the new Db2 Autonomics Expert products if the main panel of each product was enhanced to display the next scheduled maintenance window to be executed and number of actions in th...
10 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release