I recently had a conversation with a friend about the additional work they may have made for themselves by misinterpreting one sentence for a keyword when they creating a whole pile of their partition-by-growth universal table space…… Continue reading »
Be careful how you define your partition-by-growth universal table space
blog.Last Thursday, the last day of this year’s Information on Demand (IOD) Conference, while I was doing my presentation on universal table spaces for a second time, I was asked if the the DSNZPARM that allows you to update the partitioning key still existed. I wasn’t sure….. Continue reading »
What type of DB2 for z/OS table spaces are you creating?
blog.It’s a legitimate question that hopefully you are giving some serious thought to every time you create a new table space. If you are on DB2 9, we know you’re not using simple table spaces… so glad we’re finally seeing the demise of the simple table space. In fact, even the DB2 catalog will stop using simple table spaces in DB2 10 and migrate to partition-by-growth universal table spaces….. Continue reading »


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