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Db2 Administration Tool: New "Tips and Tricks" video for the catalog navigation command

By: Kate Wheat 12 days ago

This new video shows you how to use the ? (CAT) command in Db2 Admin Tool as a shortcut to quickly view Db2 catalog information. https://video.ibm.com/channel/24061261/video/catnav Db2 Admin Tool video playlists: Tips and Tricks videos: ...

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Multi-Schema Support in IBM Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS

By: Jim Wankowski 25 days ago

Introduction Schemas are a way of logically categorizing groups of relational objects. A schema can contain tables, views, nicknames, triggers, functions, packages, and other objects. A schema is itself a database object which is explicitly created ...

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Db2 Administration Tool: New "Tips and Tricks" video for GEN and masking

By: Kate Wheat 27 days ago

This new video shows you how to generate DDL for multiple objects and use masks to change names in the generated DDL. https://video.ibm.com/channel/24061261/video/gen The complete video playlist for Db2 Admin Tool is available at https://video.ibm.com/playlist/638786 ...

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Maintaining utility history tables and viewing related SYSCOPY information with Db2 Administration Tool 13.1

By: Kate Wheat one month ago

One of the most popular new features in Db2 13 is the ability to collect utility history. When you set the UTILITY_HISTORY subsystem parameter to UTILITY, information about utility executions is collected for IBM utilities and stored in the new Db2 catalog ...
QMF for TSO/CICS: Support of z/OS 2.5

By: Laxman Choure 2 months ago

Users running QMF for TSO/CICS under z/OS 2.5 may encounter an unexpected 0C4 abend when accidentally invoking QMF a second time. The error message 'DSQ50720 QMF already active; secondary session not permitted.' is expected. Please apply the appropriate ...

RE: End of Support for IDAA Plugins within Data St ...

By: MEHMET CUNEYT GOKSU , 2 months ago

Hi George, Moving forward to Db2 Admin Foundation is the right choice. - Data Studio is a deprecated product. However from IDAA perspective, we still provide IDAA-Plugin support when there is a new release of IDAA - We did not announce when Data Studio ...
RE: End of Support for IDAA Plugins within Data St ...

By: Chiara Baldan , 2 months ago

Hello George, as far as I know IBM has not yet announced the end of support for Data Studio. Regarding the support of In-Sync on IDAA, I can answer you that it is supported by data studio. Regards Chiara ------------------------------ Chiara Baldan ...
End of Support for IDAA Plugins within Data Studio

By: George Meadows , 2 months ago

Hello, I was asked by our management about the support dates for Data Studio, specifically the IDAA Plugins. We are looking to purchase Db2 Admin Foundation, but need answers to some questions in time for our next meeting. Those questions are: ...

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