Stand-alone utility jobs

Db2 stand-alone utilities (such as DSN1COPY) run as z/OS® jobs that have no direct connection to Db2 services. Therefore, a data sharing group has no indication that one of these utilities is running.

In a data sharing environment, if a table space has inter-Db2 read/write interest, its most recently updated pages might be in the coupling facility and a stand-alone utility might not be running with current data. If it is important that the data is in a consistent state, you must stop or quiesce the table space. Also, the data must not be in the recovery pending (RECP) or group buffer pool recovery pending (GRECP) state nor have any logical page list entries. Use the DISPLAY DATABASE command with the RESTRICT option to find out if there are exception statuses for a given table space or index.