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 z/OS that DASD MANAGER PLUS supports.

DASD MANAGER PLUS version	Db2 12	Db2 13
12.1.00	Supported	Not supported
13.1.00	Supported	Supported

Version 13.1 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

DASD MANAGER PLUS has the following system requirement:

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

Version 13.1.00 of the DB2 Utilities Common Code (D2U)
Version 13.1.00 of the DB2 Solution Common Code (SCC)
Version 13.1.00 of the BMC Common Statistics (ATS)
Version 6.2.01 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.