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Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS

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Integrating DCLGEN with Db2 Admin tool

Hi Team, Our Customer was using BMC for Db2 tool and they wanted to move to IBM tools, specially Db2 Admin tool as a replacement for BMC. Earlier, with BMC, they had a interface of DCLGEN integrated with BMC. Currently, in IBM Admin tool (V12.1), ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Save sql output from ADM Tool exec sql.

Sometimes, DBA need to save the sql output to PDS from ADM Tool after executing a select.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

MOVETB feature (FL 508) with DROP tablespace option enabled

The MOVETB option(with FL 508) has a shortcoming of not providing an option of DROP tablespace for the one which has moved ALL the tables from the source tablespace. Currently, we are forced to DROP the source TS separately outside of the generate...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ADMIN ACCELERATOR RESTORE Command availability

We are in the process of migrating home grown Accel administation processes for adding, loading, enabling, disabling, archiving and restoring tables to use the Admin Tool ADMIN ACCELERATOR command interface. The provided functionality looks great....
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Expand the scope of the RENAME DDL.

Moving forward with self-provisioning for developers, adherence to the company's naming standards and rules may be a necessity. The RENAME command should apply to table spaces, table schema, table, index, triggers, views, constraints, etc. This wa...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Panel ADB21TAV - Display Limit Key Values, displaying logical partitions. Panels needs to be enhanced to show physical partition also.

Showing the logical partition is misleading on this panel. Need to also show physical partition.
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Adding "with ur" at the end of the queries in admin tool

We want admin tool to add "with ur" at the end of the queries when creating queries.
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

DB2 Admin Tool - Table Space Estimator by Average Partitioned Tablespace

The current Tool retrieves the row counts based on all partitions for a PBR tablespace. Ideal Detail: It would be convenient to estimate space based on average (or the maximum) of the partitioned tablespace rather than by the total row count of al...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Generate alters for tables with Lobs without providing ddl of auxiliary table

This idea results from Case TS005582671. the problem there is, that admintool-compare cannot generate reasonable WSL for altering a table that contains a lob-column. Actually the create-auxiliary-table-statement must also be provided, so that the ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

add “RB” line command to all possible package types (Triggers, STPs, Rest Services...) when remote connected

If we are remote connected to another Db2 (ADB2DDF - CO(nnect) ) we are missing the ability to rebind some types of packages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DB2 Admin DRDA Triggers Row 1 to 3 of 3 C...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration