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Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS

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Add Upcoming Maintenance Window Summary to Main Product Panel

It would be very helpful to users of both the Db2 Automation Tool and the new Db2 Autonomics Expert products if the main panel of each product was enhanced to display the next scheduled maintenance window to be executed and number of actions in th...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Provide an easier method to bulk delete actions from a maintenance window

In the course of normal testing/usage of the autonomics functionality of the Db2 Automation Tool or the new Db2 Automation Expert, there are times when too many actions have been added to a maintenance window, and the user needs/wants to prune man...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow a Maintenance Window execution to be suspended/cancelled

There are situations that occasionally arise where the execution of a maintenance window needs to be suspended/cancelled. Examples of this are 1) when performing testing or debugging of a maintenance window, 2) when the execution of a maintenance ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

Move Button for Devices

Requesting a better functionality to move devices to/from different groups. A "move" option would greatly benefit admins with promptly moving devices. As of right now, to move a device, if placed in an incorrect group, device must be removed compl...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

Enable rebind of packages after a reorg in Automation Tool

I want to use Automation Tool to reorganise a tablespace to materialise a change to a UTS. I will issue the ALTER TABLESPACE MAXPARTITIONS nnn statement during the working day, which will put the tablespace into the AREOR state. I have a job profi...
12 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Include mask for DFSPARM

One of our customers working with REORG jobs built using Automation tool 4.3 have normally problems of "Sort Capacity exceeded". In order to solve this problem, our customer is using a customized skeleton HAAREORJ with syntaax: //DFSPARM DD * OPTI...
10 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add Abbreviation for REFRESH command in Autonomics Concole

Please add "REF" as an abbreviation for the "REFRESH" command in the Autonomics Console within the Db2 Automation Tool, particularly on the HAA$ALR3 panel. This panel is used to display the autonomic actions within a maintenance window. It is very...
4 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

Ability to exclude packages from the rebind utility

Currently, rebind statements are generated based on what objects have been runstats'd -when included with a RUNSTATS utility profile- or everything -when only using the REBIND utility in the profile-. However, this also includes packages that are ...
12 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

add part level to object profile and reorg profile discard screen

We run reorg discard utility monthly with our legacy job. We have large partition by range table spaces that have billions of rows and 100's of parts. Currently with the automation tool I need to edit the object profile for each table space to cha...
4 months ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

Add SORTDATA NO, RECLUSTER NO capability to generated reorgs for PDC PBR

PBRs having pending data change can be quite large resulting in a lot of temp storage needed for sorting data. Since the reorg is at TS level, this can be quite large for tables with huge CARDF. The following keywords should be able to be selected...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists