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Status Delivered
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 11, 2021

Support reporting against tables with a clone

The tool currently does not support reporting on tables if they have a clone table defined on them.


The job ends with a code of 8 and message -


ALAA506E-Base/Clone tables not supported


This means that we cannot run a summary or detail report against the base table.


We have a requirement to produce a daily detail report of activity by certain users or plans against the Production schema. This is effectively an audit of those users.

In the job, we specify -


OBJECT FILTERS-BY NAME....

TABLE OWNER=PROD_schema

TABLE NAME =%

PARTITION =0000

INC/EXC =I


As it stands, the job fails because the tool doesn't support tables with clones defined on them.


As a workaround, we therefore have to add -


TABLE OWNER=HMLR

TABLE NAME =Table_with_clone%

PARTITION =0000

INC/EXC =X


We are therefore unable to produce a report that show whether certain users or plans have done any update activity on the base table. We do not have a requirement to report on any activity for certain users against the clone.


Needed by Date May 11, 2021
  • Admin
    Chris Pomasl
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    Aug 18, 2023

    Thank you for submitting this Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS enhancement request. We have reviewed this request and believed it was a good candidate for the Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS product and have implemented it.
    APAR:
    PH55662

    We appreciate your input to the Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS development team. We hope that you will continue to submit enhancement suggestions for improvements as customer feedback is a key component to shaping the future direction of Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS.

    Sincerely,

    The Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS Team

  • Guest
    Reply
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    Oct 5, 2021

    In our environment we need ALA support on CLONE tables for AUDIT reasons as well as for providing last resort recovery.