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Search results: Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS

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in CM- Manage Changes display change i miss coloum 'create date'

CM - Manage Changes 1 - Display changes I mis a column with create date Is that possible ? Sel ID Owner Name Type Status I Comment * * * * * * * --- -------- -------- --------------------------- -------- -------- - --------> 67 BE6002LD Z306034...
10 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support for Bind avoidance when using Enterprise Cobol with co-processor

The basic idea of Bind Avoidance is to exchange the consistency token in the executing code from the current version to the previous which means that no package bind will be necessary. Traditionally the Db2 pre-compiler has been used to pre-proces...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create online hierarchical DDL command

Currently, we have either the DDL or GEN commands to view the object definition. We would like GEN to be online (currently batch only) or have a new command. The action should produce the data in an online format (temporary dataset) for viewing or...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Show a status for Replication on the ADM "AT" screen

It should be easy to identify tables that are Disabled for Replication. The user can go to the KEYS screen one table at a time, so see status like this: Status for table . . : TECH.TBASP_ALERT_HISTRY Acceleration status : 1 Load status : Loaded Re...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Have GEN and DDL generate Implicit objects but have them commented out for future use if needed

A Case was opened with IBM for GOC batch. Support could never recreate it using the DDL which was provided. It was later found out that this DB had implicit objects. The implicit objects in the DDL member provided were never generated. I am purpos...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Future consideration

DDL command doesn't generate comment

Table comments not displayed. The workaround is to query the catalog directly. The / command to show sysibm.systables does show a portion of the comment but not in it's entirety. Affected users are anyone using DDL command in Db2 Adminstrati...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DDL and pending DDL

In admin Tool - Gen command lets the user control the DDL scope as well as the pending DDL scope. So the user can control if the DDL generated includes the pending change or presents the DDL excluding the pending change. The DDL command against an...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

From the OC set the GENRELS = 'Y' option from the panel RFE 124526

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=124526 We would like to perform a "compare" between 2 tables ignoring any RI relations with the "child" tables.We do not want to ignore the Foreign Keys of t...
about 7 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Generate alters for tables with Lobs without providing ddl of auxiliary table

This idea results from Case TS005582671. the problem there is, that admintool-compare cannot generate reasonable WSL for altering a table that contains a lob-column. Actually the create-auxiliary-table-statement must also be provided, so that the ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Distribution key support for accelerator-only (AOTs) tables missing

Db2 PTF UI72862 introduced a new DDL feature to support distribution keys for AOTs. This doesn't work in the current Administration Tools Version. The DDL comments containing the distribution key definition for the AOT should to be passed to the a...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration