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Search results: Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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ADD OPTION ON THE RECOVER UTILITY

After open the TS012026353, IBM solve the problem by execute an DIAGNOSE TYPE(8103) to avoid the multiple messages XCF between members of DataSharing. A new parameters of RECOVER would be welcome
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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...
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

For online REORG, create parameter to set RC=4 when DRAIN fails

I am creating a scheduled job to perform regular REORGs of the Db2 Catalog. I am generating a list of catalog objects and feeding it to LISTDEF and then using ITEMERROR,SKIP I am using extremely gentle DRAIN settings...DRAIN_WAIT of 2 or 3 seconds...
7 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable of changing SWITCHTIME in REORG by ALTER command

SWITCHTIME command in REORG is valuable parameter to control the timing to cancel AREOR status. However, the value is not changeable from the one which is determined when REORG is executed. To increase its flexibility, we request you to be able to...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Track SHRLEVEL info in Utilities history

In Db2 13 utility execution can be recorded in one or two utilities history tables. We are struggling to find all utility executions ran with SHRLEVEL NONE to tell the applications to change their parameters to avoid problems. It is very hard to f...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Eliminate Reorgs failing with S513 & IEC146I 513-04 when reorging LOBs

The cause of the S513 error is due to the DB2 reorg utility trying to write two image copies in parallel (one for BASE and one for LOB) when a BASE UTS with LOB TS is being REORG’d and the specified template for image copy datasets has the STACK Y...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

RUNSTATS TABLESPACE INDEX (ALL) NPI NO

At the moment only a RUNSTATS TABLESPACE with INDEX (ALL) is possible. When using DSNACCOX suggestions for a RUNSTATS may be generated only for one or few partitions of a PBR-TS. I therefore suggest a additional parameter (e.g. NPI YES/NO) to cons...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ALLOW (SOME) UTILITIES TO OPERATE ON TABLESPACE TABLE NAME

I would like it to be easier for developers or other end-users to more easily use some basic Db2 utilities. For example, RUNSTATS or RECOVER with redirected recover functionality. But any utility that only operates on tablespace today, consider al...
9 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

UNLOAD SYSPUNCHONLY or UNLOAD NOSYSREC

We are having many developers that need only the SYSPUNCH produced by UNLOAD but not the SYSREC. Having this option available either via SYSPUNCHONLY or NOSYSREC parameter will allow them to get quickly what they need without unloading of data whi...
10 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 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