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Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS

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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...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Create user interface for --#SET ACCEPT_RC override

Allow user to specify one or more acceptable SQL return codes in the MIG process prior to the DDL being generated.
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Mask implicit parameters

We would like the mask to honour any specifications included in it regardless as to whether the parameter is included in the DDL. So, for instance, objects may default to DEFINE YES. The MASK may be setup to change all objects to DEFINE NO. We wou...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Scope source objects from objects defined in target

It is not possible to scope source objects from the objects defined in the target version or DDL file. In the 'Specify Compare Target' panel there is an option 4 'Target is from the DB2 Catalog and the objects are automatically selected based on t...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

implementation of a “ADMIN ALTER TABLE TB1 INSERT COLUMN C AFTER B” functionality

AHA request for Db2 Administration Tool We are using another vendors DB2 database management solution and have developed a fully automated batch process which propagates DDL changes to many DB2 for z/OS DB2 systems. Our application developers use ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Require Change to Primary Index When Primary Constraint is Changed in Alter Session

Currently when an alter is performed on the primary constraint for a table, Admin Tool will warn that a corresponding change should also be performed on the primary index. However, you can back out of that warning and generate WSL which does not i...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Option to Ignore Column Order in Object Comparison

Object Comparison should allow you to ignore the column order when comparing tables. Columns can be added to tables in different order between Test and Production databases. As long as the column definitions match, you should be able to ignore dif...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Generate a reorg for the history table when doing an add column on the base table (STT)

I’m going to add a column to two tables that are “connected” through versioning (STT).This is what I (or the tool) should do: ALTER TABLE MY.BASETAB ADD NEW_COLUMN DECIMAL(5, 3) NOT NULL; REORG TABLESPACE MYDB.BASETS REORG TABLESPACE MYDB.HISTTS T...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Have GEN and DDL generate Implicit objects but have them commented out for future use if needed

A Case was opened with IBM for GOC batch. Support could never recreate it using the DDL which was provided. It was later found out that this DB had implicit objects. The implicit objects in the DDL member provided were never generated. I am purpos...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future 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...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration