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How to reclaim space after dropping Indexes or Rows from a DB2 Table?

Troubleshooting


Problem

Why dropping indexes or rows from DMS table spaces does reclaim the correspondent DMS pages?

Symptom

Users may notice that dropping indexes or rows (registers) from DB2 tables that are created under DMS table spaces will not reclaim the correspondent DMS pages after the dropping operation.

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Modified date:
30 April 2025

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