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Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS

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Resolution of Indoubt threads on Target after cloning

Hello IBM, The current version of Db2 Cloning Tool v3.2 does not support the automatic resolution of INDOUBT threads on Target if the cloning had happened when there were inflight transactions on Source. This causes the Target subsystem start to f...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Parameter to suppress the generate of Grant Statements in Db2 Cloning Tool

When we clone tablespaces from a production to a test Db2 system we would like to suppress all authorizations on the target objects (e.g. tables, views), because users don't possess the same privileges in these two environments. At this time cloni...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Provide a flag for Cloning tool to unload/Load tables having RI

Currently, the Cloning tool does not Unload/Load tables that have RI defined on them. This is despite the fact that these tables become eligible for Unload / Load due to legitimate reasons like Source Target Mismatch where Source defined as a Simp...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 3 Delivered

Versioning of packages

All CKZ-Packages of Cloning Tool should be bound with versioning (like the packages in AdminTool). This would simplify fallback-Szenarios (=> no rebind necessary) and the rollout of a new version (=> packages can be created before activation).
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Support of ICF-catalogs on target vols when source of subsystem cloning is SLB RFE 83425

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=83425 To use SLBs for backup/recovery it's neccessary to place the ICF-catalogs on the same volumes as DB2-data. But so far cloning-tool doesn't support handling of ICF-cata...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

DB2_GENERATED_ROWID not treated correctly RFE 45902

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=45902 in tables with LOBs DB2 generates an additional column DB2_GENERATED_ROWID which is placed at the end of the table. If you add some columns by ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN t...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Always generate ALTER TABLE SQL for Identity Columns RFE 71287

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=71287 Could you please add a new parameter to Cloning Tool where it will always generate the ALTER TABLE Restart even if restart-valuie is not set in catalog. If a table wit...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

Support of implicit tables for tablespace cloning

Currently, Cloning Tool does not support automatic database name translation for implicit objects. It successfully matched source TS DSN00001.TBAPCRAT to target TS DSN00170.TBAPCRAT, but there was no DATABASE translate rule that would allow source...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

Add support for Cascading FlashCopy for COPY command with FASTREP(REQ) - see PTF UI172348

Context: We take daily System Level backups (SLB) of our SAP production environments using the BACKUP SYSTEM utility. We use Incremental FlashCopy to reduce the amount of data that needs to be physically copied to the FlashCopy target volumes and ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 4 Delivered

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