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DB2 Utilities Suite V7.1


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Overview

DB2 Utilities Suite supports DB2 for z/OS and aligns with the associated versions. IBM DB2 Utilities Suite addresses common tasks required to service and support database operations. It also provides a wide variety of functions to handle common system-level point-in-time backup and recovery operations.


  Key Features
Enhancements in DB2 Utilities Suite, V7
Features operational functions such unloading, reloading, reorganizing, copying and catalog management, diagnostic functions such as Check Data and Check Index, and recovery functions such as Copy, Mergecopy, Modify and Rebuild.
Offers improved usability through support for Lists and Patterns Matching and Dynamic Allocation.
Allows you to insert data whose source is any DRDA-compliant server through the Load utility with IBM DB2 family cross loading, a new function which lets the output of any SQL Select statement to be directly loaded into a DB2 for z/OS table.
Allows asynchronous duplication of backup for both local and remote site usage with a new option, CopyToCopy, which lets you make up to three additional backup copies and register them in the DB2 catalog for recovery purposes.
Offers higher data load performance with Load partition parallelism.
Provides new features in Runstats that let you evaluate the changes occurring in the database and invoke from other utilities to save the cost of a second pass of the data.
Information on DB2 Utilities Suite Version 8.1

DB2 Operational Utilities, 5655-E63, and DB2 Diagnostic and Recovery Utilities, 5655-E62, are no longer offered.

Program number 5697-E98
Utilities Management


  Related Tools
DB2 Automation Tool
DB2 High Performance Unload
DB2 Object Comparison Tool
DB2 Table Editor

System Requirements

DB2 Utilities Suite for z/OS, V7.1 requires:

  • DB2 Universal Database, Version 7
  • z/OS or OS/390 operating system

For more information on the system requirements, see the Program Directory on the Library page.


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Highlights

State of Alaska and DB2 Utilities Suite


Technical details

Fact Sheet (PDF)

DB2 Utilities Migration Toolkit Fact Sheet (PDF)


Publications

Library

DB2 Magazine article: "Programs vs. Utilities"

Redbook: DB2 for z/OS, and OS/390 with Utilities Suite