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Search results: Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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Standardize and allow LISTDEF PARTEVEL syntax for MODIFY STATISTICS utility

Currently MODIFY STATISTICS utility does not support LISTDEF with PARTLEVEL and throws an error like in example: LISTDEF DB2RK INCLUDE TABLESPACE DS0HUZX.S0HU37P PARTLEVEL(20) TEMPLATE COPYIC DSN(&SS..ICR.&DB..&TS..P&PA..&UQ.) ...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Delivered

REORG Option to set Return Code for drain failure or deadline

At present we have to manually intervene every time a REORG fails with a DRAIN FAIL or DEADLINE hit, because the job finishes with RC8. However, these scenarios are both common and expected BAU situations - so we would like to handle them automati...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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

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

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

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

Enhance the message "table XXXX not found" during running load Utility.

We actually want DB2 load utilities to display consistent error messages that are easy to find. It should definitely be an ‘E’rror, not a ‘W’arning or ‘I’nformational message’, but it should also contains something like ‘UNSCCESSFUL’, or ‘ERROR’, ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

LOAD utility support for removable media / TAPE for WORKDDN, SYSUT1 and SORTOUT

"... The LOAD utility WORKDDN data sets, SYSUT1 and SORTOUT, are multi-use datasets. When a very large table is loaded, it is sometimes necessary to use a tape device for these datasets. The problem is if error or discard processing is invoked, th...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Include subsystem recognition character in DSNU000I message

Currently there is no deterministic way of knowing which subsystem DSNUTILB is connecting to. Especially true in a data sharing group when using a group attachment code. This would be useful for, for example, auditing purposes and, in some situati...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration