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Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS

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Display index partitions like Tablespace partitions because of RPN conversion

We have converted Tablespaces to RPN with also the possibility to alter the DSSIZE of indexes per partition. So it would be nice to see those DSSIZE per partition within ADBL as you see by Tablespaces (see attachment) instead of take a look in all...
12 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow execution of revoke impact in batch mode

During migration of security from native DB2 to RACF, there is cleanup activity after creation of all profiles and permits completed in order to remove grants in DB2 for a clean picture. Also, for any other security configuration change, clean up ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Index and index partition's DSSIZE

Information about indexes and index partitions should show DSSIZE. Today, the only way to see index DSSIZE and index partition's individually set DSSIZE is to type DDL as a line command before the index name, or type B on the command line when the...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Delivered

Admin tool MASK for KEY LABEL

Admin Tool Masking feature can benefit from a process where in the KEY LABEL can be removed from a table definition. It is quite likely that test versions of production tables will not have a requirement for encryption at rest. SO when creating DD...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Support IDAA v7.5

When I go into DB2 Admin Tool and use the Accelerator Trace Details (Z;AC and TR for an accelerator) I find that the option to choose "Manually collected diagnostic information (folder additional_support_info)" and sub option "Collect Backend Envi...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 4 Delivered

Provide an interface to manage System Profiles

System profiles were introduced as long ago as DB2 9, and have been successively enhanced in every release since then. They provide a range of capabilities, including setting ZPARMs at a more granular level, production modelling in test systems, m...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow for BIND with APREUSE(ERROR) in Changes

Allow for BIND with APREUSE(ERROR) in Changes
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Out of date rebind listings in admin tool implementation and backout jobs

We request a new feature that would ensure the rebind listings were up to date at the point of execution e.g. dynamically check at run time for relevant packages with a bind date AFTER the analysis timestamp, generating a "missing binds" step to run.
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Compare generates an unnecessary number of REORG statements

Comparing table spaces that results in changes on the table space level generates 4 REORG TABLESPACE statements when only 1 is necessary. This can cause REORGs to run over several hours and causes the table space to be unavailable.
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Generic Ignore for New v12 Columns on SYSTABLESPACE and SYSINDEX

v12 introduced additional columns on SYSTABLESPACE and SYSINDEX which match attributes that were previously present on SYSTABLEPART and SYSINDEXPART, respectively. When a source object has been created in v12 is compared to a target object which w...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered