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Search results: Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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Modify Recovery for COPY YES indexes

at the moment any SYSCOPY (and SYSLGRNX) entries for COPY YES indexes are deleted based on the corresponding action taken on the Tablespace (or partition). The strategy to keep the image copies and SYSCOPY related information for tablespace can be...
11 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...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improving CHECK utility performance: elapsed time and CPU

On our site, we have a PBG tablespace that, after loading, has the last partition in CHECK PENDING, the other partitions in RW. The IBM CHECK utility has taken a long time to complete the verification. We tried using the SCOPE PENDING parameter, b...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add "EXCEPTION" parameter to CHECK INDEX to discontinue processing after N disrepancies

Sometimes when you run CHECK INDEX you encounter a huge number of discrepancies so much so that the utility keeps running and running and producing an excessive amount of output -messages regarding the details of the discrepancies. In some cases y...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

IBM Load - if load column has bad data, Load discards the record instead of Loading the record with a Default value

While converting from BMC Load Plus to the IBM Load, the following anomaly has been identified: The BMC Load parameter DEFAULTIF ERROR does not exist in IBM Load. This causes BMC to load the default value for the column whenever it encounters bad ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Delivered

DSNTYPE(PIPE) support for TEMPLATE utility

Would like to be able to dynamically allocate a z/OS Unix Named Pipe via the TEMPLATE utility. LOADing to and UNLOADing from named pipes is extremely useful, for example, to copy data between different Db2 systems on the same z/OS image. In JCL, t...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Parameter on RECOVER utility to override UTILS_BLOCK_FOR_CDC

We want to be able to use the new DSNZPARM UTILS_BLOCK_FOR_CDC but are not comfortable doing it as it prevents us from performing recover of a table. We don't understand why UTILS_BLOCK_FOR_CDC applies to recover as there is no choice whether we w...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

IBM Unload doesn't support parameter AT LOCAL for UTC Timestamp columns

In a SELECT statement the parameter AT LOCAL is supported, for example: SELECTDCOLLID ,-- =' ' --CHAR(18)DNAME ,-- =' ' --CHAR(8)TIMESTMP ,-- =' '--TIMESTMPKOMMENTAR -- =' '--CHAR(50)FROM DB2YD0XD.YD01TQR0WHERE TIMESTMP AT LOCAL < '2019-09-26-0...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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