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Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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Allow alter column to drop NOT NULL constraint

Currently the only way to remove the NOT NULL constraint from a column is to unload the table, drop-recreate table (or drop-add column) and reload table. Such a small change needs so much effort, and causes unnecessary outage and service disruptio...
13 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

USING LOADINCURSOR for XML COLUMN even nullable

We have a table with a XML column defined NOT NULL. We periodically transfer data from production to preproduction using unload/load.Because XML column has value nobody have to read after having transfered data applications execute a sql update fo...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

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 ...
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Under review

Reorg Rebalance for partitions with different DSSIZE

Reorg Rebalance tries to set new partition boundaries so that rows are evenly distributed across the reorganized partitions. It does not consider that the partitions can have different values for DSSIZE. So the functionality of Reorg Rebalance sho...
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

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...
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

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...
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

Parallel Unload of Partitioned Table including Lob columns is not possible

We try to unload a partioned Tablespace with a Lob column into Datasetswith spanned format.But is unload into one Datset and i do not see the following messageDSNU1201I 326 13:35:11.03 DSNUUNLD - PARTITIONS WILL BE UNLOADED IN PARALLEL We have lar...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

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
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

Parameter for RECOVER utility to avoid invalidation of RTS-information

We would like a parameter (e.g. KEEP_RTS) for the RECOVER utility to indicate that real-time statistics should not be set to NULL. After a RECOVER we need to run a REBUILD of any indexes that have not been recovered, and the REBUILD utility uses R...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow Load To Do Inline Image Copies Of LOB & XML Tablespaces

We have users running the Load utility and we require them to make inline image copies during the Load. We grant these users the LOAD database privilege so they can do loads with inline image copies. We don't grant these users the IMAGCOPY d...
5 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Under review