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Search results: Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS

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Enable rebind of packages after a reorg in Automation Tool

I want to use Automation Tool to reorganise a tablespace to materialise a change to a UTS. I will issue the ALTER TABLESPACE MAXPARTITIONS nnn statement during the working day, which will put the tablespace into the AREOR state. I have a job profi...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Include mask for DFSPARM

One of our customers working with REORG jobs built using Automation tool 4.3 have normally problems of "Sort Capacity exceeded". In order to solve this problem, our customer is using a customized skeleton HAAREORJ with syntaax: //DFSPARM DD * OPTI...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add SORTDATA NO, RECLUSTER NO capability to generated reorgs for PDC PBR

PBRs having pending data change can be quite large resulting in a lot of temp storage needed for sorting data. Since the reorg is at TS level, this can be quite large for tables with huge CARDF. The following keywords should be able to be selected...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

HAA - PBR containing XML generated REORG that abended because XML running at the same time as an index in the base table containing the XML column in two separate jobs

Base table has index: Name Schema T DB Name TS Name Cols Rows Chks * * * * * * * * ------------------ -------- - -------- -------- ------ ----------- ---- MASTER_TRANS_MTR ZAP2 T DZAP2QR1 SQR1MTR 17 10 0 XQR14MTR Column Name Seq No O Col Type Leng...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Making the real-time stats externalization optional

The Automation Tool issues the ACCESS DATABASE(*) SPACE(*) MODE(STATS) command whenever the REALTIMESTATS option is used in an exception profile. This default behavior causes some problems: Since the ACCESS command is issued to every DB and TS in ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

we need an automated process to regenerate jobs to use the latest software

We have about 300 jobs with the tool Every time software is updated we need to regenerate all the jobs to use the new software. If we were allowed to use variables in the tool we would not need to do this. The process to regenerate the jobs is ver...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

add part level to object profile and reorg profile discard screen

We run reorg discard utility monthly with our legacy job. We have large partition by range table spaces that have billions of rows and 100's of parts. Currently with the automation tool I need to edit the object profile for each table space to cha...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Option required for creating additional Catalog indexes as COPY YES or COPY NO

The Automaton Tool provides DDL to create additional indexes on selected Catalog tables. At present the DDL used for the various indexes is inconsistent, with some being created as COPY YES and some as COPY NO. A better option would be to standard...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to prune/delete Autonomic Symptoms, Actions, and Utility History table data

There is currently no supported process that will allow a user to cleanup all or selected rows in the Symptoms, Actions, and Utility History tables in the DB2 Autonomics Director for z/OS database DYXDB. These tables are populated by the DB2 Auton...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Improve Performance of RTS Collection Process RFE 126577

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=126577 We are using Data Server Manager 2.1.5.1 and Autonomics Director 1.6 together to collect and save RTS stats for our tablespace objects on a weekly basis. We have notic...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Delivered