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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY

ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY The DB2 redirected recovery functionality allows RECOVER utility to be used to redirect the recovery of an object (the source) to another object (the target). The source and target objec...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 6 Future consideration

DB2 utility should be protected in case of abend 878 - end of memory

Hello there, This is related to IBM case TS016981605. DB2 was not able to manage correctly 878 abend (end of virtual memory below 16M line). Because of that, we had troubles in our production environment. In this case, IBM suggested to require a "...
10 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

RUNSTATS TABLESPACE on one TS partition scans all partitions of partitioned indexes

We encountered that the RUNSTATS on one TABLESPACE partition via RUNSTATS TABLESPACE ... PART or via LISTDEF INCLUDE TABLESPACE ... PARTLEVEL scans all partitions of a partitioned index. Therefore the runtime and the zIIP time of the jobs are extr...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Support SORTWK with EAV

We run a REORG on a tablepace (~5TB) with 3 IXs and need ~17TB sort space. One of the IX (an NPI) needs ~15TB. We had a pool with 30TB, but this does not help/count. Reason: As the allocation of the SORTWKs by DB2 is limited to 10TB (255 * the lim...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Help for complex utilities

For complex utilities (I primarily mean REORG here but copy and runstats are getting there!) an addition to the OPTIONS with a new keyword SHOW or EXPLAIN or HELP. This would change the utility to be PREVIEW in all cases! And it will just output t...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES should have a column containing the full text of the Db2 utility

SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES should have a column containing the full text of the Db2 utility that was executed. This allows the DBAs or sysprogs to see exactly what was executed for problem and other analysis. For example if someone has run a utility that...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

include num of Rows discarded in a REORG DISCARD utility execution

It can/will be VERY useful to Db2 zOS users if the Object level utilities history will record the number of rows discarded in a REORG DISCARD utility execution. As documented I understand that the object level information will be available in v13 ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Alter PBG to PBR should be possible for tables with LOBs

The statement ALTER PARTITIONING TO PARTITION BY RANGE should be applicable for tables with LOB's. One of the main drivers for us to convert from PBG's to PBR's is that our LOB tablespaces are growing very large. As the base tables usually only co...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

REORG DISCARD for utility-history-tables

We tried to establish a Housekeeping for the utility-history-tables.The first appoach was to execute a REORG DISCARD to remove old data from the two tables. This is not possible, because the DISCARD OPTION is not applicable for catalog or director...
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Track SHRLEVEL info in Utilities history

In Db2 13 utility execution can be recorded in one or two utilities history tables. We are struggling to find all utility executions ran with SHRLEVEL NONE to tell the applications to change their parameters to avoid problems. It is very hard to f...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

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