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Search results: Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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RUNSTATS to Always Sample at least one row

Modify RUNSTATS utility to always sample at least one row of every non-empty TS/partition event when TABLESAMPLE number is low.
22 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

RUNSTATS TABLESPACE on one TS partition scans all partitions of partitioned indexes

We encountered that the RUNSTATS on one TABLESPACE partition via RUNSTATS TABLESPACE ... PART or via LISTDEF INCLUDE TABLESPACE ... PARTLEVEL scans all partitions of a partitioned index. Therefore the runtime and the zIIP time of the jobs are extr...
9 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY

ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY The DB2 redirected recovery functionality allows RECOVER utility to be used to redirect the recovery of an object (the source) to another object (the target). The source and target objec...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 6 Future consideration

Support SORTWK with EAV

We run a REORG on a tablepace (~5TB) with 3 IXs and need ~17TB sort space. One of the IX (an NPI) needs ~15TB. We had a pool with 30TB, but this does not help/count. Reason: As the allocation of the SORTWKs by DB2 is limited to 10TB (255 * the lim...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 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

REORG PREFORMAT of 1 TB page set should be interruptable

With PH64760 one can create 1TB page sets in one step. If one runs a REORG PREFORMAT on such large objects, the Media Manager Preformat task is not interruptable. Such a size of 1TB needs ~1.5hours to preformat the page set. In the meanwhile neith...
8 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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

CHECK utility SHRLEVEL CHANGE with less dataset privileges

To run CHECK utility with SHRLEVEL CHANGE you need ALTER privilege to the VSAM dataset where the table-, LOB- or index data are stored as the shadow dataset is created with almost the same name as the original. This also mean that the user will be...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Automatically Perform a Display with Claimers when Utilities Cannot Perform a Drain on an Object

We recently migrated from BMC Utilities for Db2 to IBM Utilities. One feature that is sorely missed is that when the BMC Utilities would fail to drain because other processes had a claim on the object, BMC Utilities would perform a display with cl...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Alter PBG to PBR should be possible for tables with LOBs

The statement ALTER PARTITIONING TO PARTITION BY RANGE should be applicable for tables with LOB's. One of the main drivers for us to convert from PBG's to PBR's is that our LOB tablespaces are growing very large. As the base tables usually only co...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration