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Limited support BMC provides limited support for this version of the product. As a result, BMC no longer accepts comments in this space. If you encounter problems with the product version or the space, contact BMC Support.BMC recommends upgrading to the latest version of the product. To see documentation for that version, see DASD MANAGER PLUS for DB2 13.1.

System setup


Review this topic for recommendations and requirements before you use DASD MANAGER PLUS.

DB2 support

The following table shows the versions of the IBM DB2 Universal Database (UDB) for OS/390 and z/OS that DASD MANAGER PLUS supports.

DASD MANAGER PLUS version

DB2 10

DB2 11

DB2 12

11.1.00

Supported

Not supported

Not supported

11.2.00

Supported

Supported

Not supported

12.1.00

Supported

Supported

Tolerated

Features of DB2 that DASD MANAGER PLUS does not currently support

Version 12.1 of DASD MANAGER PLUS does not support the following IBM DB2 features.

  • Hash objects
  • Space estimation for XML objects
  • Unicode data in SYSIN streams
  • Object names in Unicode that do not translate to EBCDIC
  • Delimited object name entries in ISPF dialogs and batch programs
  • RECOVER INDEX (but does support REBUILD INDEX)
  • PARALLEL option of RECOVER
  • INCURSOR, IGNOREFIELDS, DISCARDDN, and SHRLEVEL options of LOAD
  • LISTDEF (but DASD MANAGER PLUS provides its own wildcard functions and object sets)
  • FIELDPROCs, EDITPROCs, and VALIDPROCs for XML columns
  • Indexes that contain keys with random ordering

System requirements

DASD MANAGER PLUS has the following system requirements:

  • IBM System z10 processor or later 64-bit z/Architecture processor
  • z/OS Version 1.10 or later

Software requirements

This version of DASD MANAGER PLUS has the following requirements for additional IBM or BMC software:

  • Version 2.4.01 of BMCSORT
  • Version 11.2.00 of the DB2 Utilities Common Code (D2U)
  • Version 12.1.00 of the DB2 Solution Common Code (SCC)
  • Version 12.1.00 of the BMC Common Statistics (ATS)
  • Version 6.1.00 or later of either EXTENDED BUFFER MANAGER (XBM) or the SNAPSHOT UPGRADE FEATURE (SUF) in order to offload eligible processing to a zIIP processor using the XBM enclave (if you have specified ZIIP E).

    If you use the XBMID option to specify an XBM subsystem, the specified subsystem must be at this maintenance level. If you do not specify a particular XBM subsystem and ZIIP ENABLED is in effect, DASD MANAGER PLUS searches for an XBM subsystem at this level.

 

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DASD MANAGER PLUS for DB2 12.1