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Search results: Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS

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REORG DISCARD for utility-history-tables

We tried to establish a Housekeeping for the utility-history-tables.The first appoach was to execute a REORG DISCARD to remove old data from the two tables. This is not possible, because the DISCARD OPTION is not applicable for catalog or director...
6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

REORG DISCARD for RTS history tables

The history data collected in SYSTABSPACESTATS_H and SYSIXSPACESTATSS_H are filled so quickly and causes huge impact on catalog and directory storage group. However the only maintenance mechanism available at the moment is delete command with wher...
6 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide ROWID addition for PBG to PBR conversion in V13 ALTER statement.

In V13m we get to convert PBG tablespace to PBR by a simple ALTER statement. However, we will be forced to look for a partitioning key by working with application team. In the mean time, in V12 we have a feature called "Hidden ROWID support for pa...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Delivered

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

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

DISPLAY UTIL should show more detailed count for the displayed phases

We have a REBUILD IX job with a table which has 8.5 billion rows. During the rebuild DIS UTIL shows for the UNLOAD phase a higher count than 8.5 billion e.g 10 billion or more. Therefore I openend a case how could it be that this number is higher ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

There should be a Db2 utility to delete rows from SYSIBM.SYSOBJEVENTS and SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES

Currently there is no to delete rows from SYSIBM.SYSOBJEVENTS and SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES and these tables will keep growing. All sites with these tables enabled require this. The utility could be an extension of the functionality of "MODIFY RECOVERY"...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under 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

include num of Rows discarded in a REORG DISCARD utility execution

It can/will be VERY useful to Db2 zOS users if the Object level utilities history will record the number of rows discarded in a REORG DISCARD utility execution. As documented I understand that the object level information will be available in v13 ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enhanced recovery performance improvement

We encountered significant recovery performance issues (recovery time increasing exponentially as the number of objects rises) and the analysis in a Case showed that this was due to enhanced recovery’s non target index serialization (our backups a...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration