CA GEN Universal tablespaces and Extended RBA?

[Steve Muenks]

I was wanting to convert our CA Gen tablespaces to Universal and also convert the RBA to extended.  Has anyone else done this to ther CA Gen database?  I didn't want to encounter any issues with conversion.

[Lynn Williams]

Hello Steve,

From searching I think you previously raised a support case on this topic and you are referring to the Gen Host Encyclopedia database rather than a Gen application database - correct?

We do now have some published KB articles but they still state both changes are not officially supported because they are not tested and would therefore be at own risk:

Can CA Gen Host Encyclopedia (HE) table spaces be - CA Knowledge 

Is CA Gen Host Encyclopedia (HE) impacted if chang - CA Knowledge 

 

Hopefully there are some Gen community users out there who might have tried these changes and can provided input.

 

Thanks,

 

Lynn

[M B]

We converted to UTS for the GuardIEn tablespaces (DB2 on z/OS). For both Gen and GuardIEn databases the PLAN_TABLEs were converted to extended. Did not encounter any problems.

Statements used:

• ALTER TABLESPACE EHDBGD1.EHGD1CCB

  MAXPARTITIONS 10;                                                                       <----

• //REORG1 EXEC DSNUPROC,SYSTEM=DB0O,UID='',UTPROC=''                    
  //SYSREC   DD UNIT=DISK,SPACE=(CYL,(25,25),RLSE)                       
  //SYSIN DD *   

         TEMPLATE SYSCOPY                                     
          DSN <dataset>
          UNIT SYSDA                                          
          RETPD 30                                            
         LISTDEF CONVERSI INCLUDE TABLESPACE EHDBGD1.PLANRTAB 
         REORG TABLESPACE LIST CONVERSI                       
         SHRLEVEL REFERENCE                                   
         COPYDDN(SYSCOPY)                                     
         RBALRSN_CONVERSION EXTENDED                                          <-----                                         

[KLAUS SEEGER]

Hello Steve,

this discussion is quite old but we are currently facing the same question and I was routed here...

I'm not sure whether you are still active in the GEN-context but would it possible to give an update on your experience in this case?

Many thanks

Klaus

[Christos Brenner]

Hi Steve, 
I have just had a discussion with our DB2 responsible in team about this topic. It's already quite old. We have converted the Gen databases, the GuardIEn as well the application databases to universal two years ago and couple of years ago to extended RBA. No known issues faced.

Regards, Christos

[KLAUS SEEGER]

Hi Christos, many thanks for your info. This is very helpful.

I have raised an ideation for a forma certification 

Idea Details - Broadcom Community - Discussion Forums, Technical Docs, Ideas and Blogs

Regards

Klaus