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Allow a MASS DELETE as a recovery point for a tablespace

As we discussed in case TS019823289, we believe it's necessary to be able to use a MASS DELETE (recorded in SYSCOPY) as a recovery point for a tablespace. This would avoid reading large amounts of log files that, in our view, aren't necessary. We ...
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow for custom auroralogging.properties file to define custom loggers that aren't overwritten by upgrades/fix packs/interim fixes

When implementing custom loggers we have to place these in the auroralogging.properties file. This works great until the file gets re-created during the installation of upgrades, fix packs or interim fixes. We would like a custom auroralogging.pro...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Future consideration

Option to override LOAD utility maintaining MAXASSIGNEDVAL for identity columns in Db2 V12

Our existing process to move data from one region to another using the LOAD utility stopped working on tables with generated by default as identity key column after we upgraded to Db2 12. The new LOAD enhancement to maintain MAXASSIGNEDVAL is caus...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 5 Delivered

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 ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Reorg discards with PARTITION range for PBR

we are using PBR with multiple partitions per month. We perform reorg discards with PARTITION range like 1: 4. But discarded data is going to a single file when do the discards with range partition. example: We would like to get the first-part dat...
12 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Track the export history

The export of user data (*) is currently not logged. Considering the fact that SaaS use is becoming more and more common these days, customers are highly concerned about the security of cloud services, and we believe that information leaks are an ...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Add ability for OpenPages/Cognos administrators to add custom images to server

We need to include a custom diagram image for each assessment, which will then be displayed in the Cognos PDF report for that assessment. Currently, the PDF report is unable to use the image if uploaded/attached to an object within OpenPages (only...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Allow TEMPLATE switching for more data sets in REORG and LOAD

Allow TEMPLATE switching in the REORG TABLESPACE, REORG INDEX and LOAD utilities for the necessary work files. For example, small objects may only require data sets with DSNTYPE BASIC and large objects may require data sets with DSNTYPE EXTREQ or ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance LOAD to support Load on DATABASE level

We suppose to enhance LOAD utility to allow LOAD DATABASE, intended to create the possibility of loading several or all tables of a database in one step using only one SYSREC file. Background: In the past, using segmented tablespaces, we had the o...
12 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

GDPR: Allow for file attachments to be anonymized as well (file name and contents)

GDPR API features introduced with version 8.0.0.1 do not allow for anonymizing file names and contents. At least for PDF, TXT, CSV and common MS Office files should be consider during search and replace (anonymization) as well.
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration