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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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Reorg Index materialization

For REORG INDEX pending alter materialization, the utility performs a DRAIN ALL on the target index before starting the SWITCH phase, and then relies on DDL/Dependency logic to invalidate all the affected plans/packages/DSC...etc in the middle of ...
6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Reorg Utility should leave objects in Status UTUT when victim of a Timeout of DBD01

We have the problem, that every now and then a reorg abends because of a timeout of DBD01 in the switch-phase. The reorged object remains in status UTUT and cannot be accessed by anyone, until the utility is terminated via command.After a long tim...
7 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 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 "...
8 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

DISPLAY UTIL should show more detailed count for the displayed phases

We have a REBUILD IX job with a table which has 8.5 billion rows. During the rebuild DIS UTIL shows for the UNLOAD phase a higher count than 8.5 billion e.g 10 billion or more. Therefore I openend a case how could it be that this number is higher ...
9 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhanced recovery performance improvement

We encountered significant recovery performance issues (recovery time increasing exponentially as the number of objects rises) and the analysis in a Case showed that this was due to enhanced recovery’s non target index serialization (our backups a...
11 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

Allow creation of table with column definition WITH DEFAULT CURRENT DATE - x DAYS

We have a requirement to create some new tables, where we load a CSV file in every day. The CSV file contains information from the IMS Performance Analyzer Tool, and is always 2 days behind the current date. It would be nice to have the option to ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

new DDCARD SYSERROR

The output under sysprint can contain several thousand lines, especially when working with large listdefs. Then it is often very difficult to identify all the messages that lead to an RC8 or RC4. This is particularly true if there are several corr...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enhance DSNU306I message

We are regularly getting DSNU306I, however the message does not provide any information about the claimers. It will be very productive if DSNU306I is enhanced to include the claimers. DSNU306I -DB2P 325 14:06:35.61 DSNUQUIA - UNABLE TO DRAIN WRI...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

LOAD - Add ability to bypass REPORT phase when duplicates are present

Processing a TS with a lot of duplicates. We never look at the data from the REPORT phase. Also it takes a very long time to produce. Would like the ability to have a keyword to bypass this
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration