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Search results: Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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Enhance DB2 Load WHEN specification

Coding the DB2 Load utility into table WHEN statement to allow for several specified values, not just one, is found in a given field, would be a useful enhancement.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration
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Allow Db2 z/OS LOAD REPLACE for bi-temporal tables

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In Development or other non-Production environments, it would be useful to allow the base tables of a bi-temporal table pair to have a LOAD REPLACE operation to refresh the contents. In such cases, the related HISTORY tables would need to be compl...
over 7 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Increase commits in STOSPACE

We opened a case: Contentions on SYSINDEXES during STOSPACE. The stospace on a large stogroup causes many timeouts and deadlocks on the SYSINDEXES to a JDBC application which is the most used in our center. The answer in the case is the following:...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Modify the message when Load utility encounter table not found.

Sometimes we unload many tables from source DB2 to another one. If some tables do not exist in the target DB2, the load utility will fail with RC=8. this error message is mixed with ordinary information and ends with "I" in a big jobout file. For ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

MODIFY with DELETEDS and DSN not cataloged printing message as ERROR... and completing with RC4. Should be WARNING instead of ERROR.

Reviewing the output, it is concerning seeing a message with ERROR in the text. DSNU1323I ERROR DELETING IMAGE COPY DATA SET FOR object-type.object-qualifier.object-name DSNUM part-number DSN=dataset-name This is not an ERROR but a fact of lif...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Load into util next to a reorg

As discussed in IDUG EMEA 2023 Praag, i gave a presentation about reorg a big table that took 8 days. If the table cant be accessed, a recover to that point would take 6 hours. So table created at front that can have the data already loaded until ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Track REORGs with SHRLEVEL NONE

We do not want anyone to run a REORG with SHRLEVEL NONE. If they do we might end up with big problems, especially if it abends or we have to terminate it. We see no reason to use SHRLEVEL NONE with REORG any more unless it is a huge tables that ca...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support Spanned Record Format in Reorg Discard Dataset

We would like Discard Lob's from a Table and Load them into a Partner Table. The Discard Dataset can not exceed 32K, so it is not possible. With Unload Utility it is possible to define Spanned Yes for SYSREC. It would be helpful if you could suppo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance CHECK DATA utility: 1) to avoid SCANTAB and SORT when “SINGLE PARTITION IS SPECIFIED”; 2) to add PART range and parallelism option.

Currently Db2 does not provide either a parallelism option or PART range option for running CHECK DATA utility. Instead, as of Db2 V12, only ‘PART integer’ option is provided that repeating TABLESPACE database-name.table-space-name PART integer st...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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