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Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS

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Remove messages such as Grant(source): Grantor=CONTROLM Grantee:DB2DEVGP (Not propagated) from the Compare Report. Compare Report should only list what is going be changed.

The Grant message clutters the report and should only reflect what is changing and not the obvious: Compare table source(CHIC.CAN_MRN_CMP_INF_CMC) and target(LOAD.CAN_MRN_CMP_INF_CMC) No changes to Table Grant(source): Grantor=CONTROLM Grantee:DB2...
about 3 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

An enhancement to Object Compare

Our main user of Object Compare is having a problem using the product
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Display RTS values from the system catalog Table view

In the DB2 Admin tool we have to navigate to the tablespace to see the RTS values. What I would like to to be able to issue the RTS command against the table. All DBAs and a lot of application team members look at tables and want to RTS informatio...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Toggle between Capitalize object names YES and NO with a command.

Our shop have decided to use camel case notation for rest service objects. So the package names are in camel case as the collections they are places in and so on. We seldom user lower case in any other Db2 objects which means that we have “Capital...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

PDS-E should be created when new DSN are being created. Currently PDS is being created.

PDS-E should be created when new DSN are being created. Currently PDS is being created.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ADBTEP2 - when index is being created for an existing table in the DB2 catalog, the should be an ability to have rebinds done automatically which in the execution of the ADBTEP2 step

Current, ADP has steps be to create the rebind commands and after to execute them. This is added work, when ADBTEP2 should be doing this.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

GOC - ADB2W1 should have ability to view the WSL. Has edit but if change is inadvertently made, you need to remember to Cancel

There should be a way to just view the WSL like the Edit. View would display the information protected from update.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under 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

Enable REORG REBALANCE option in Object Comparison

At option 5 on OC comparison panel we can customize utility options, including for REORG tablespaces. However option REBALANCE is grayed out not allowing DBAs to select that option for partition-by-range tablespaces.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration