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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We need an option to provide application/instance specific OC parameters

While working on CI flows, we are lacking the option to provide OC parameters from the pipeline.For CD flow's we have such functionality with the directives We can specify generic parameters in the OC proclib members, but these are valid for all r...
11 days ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Get better feedback on OC job execution through API calls

When changes are applied in the CI or CD flow, it would be better if we can tailer the output we present in the pipeline towards our users.Today we can print a impact COMPARISON SUMMARY REPORT & COMPARISON COUNTS REPORT it would be nice if we ...
11 days ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Improve deployment plan API usage

When you create or run a deployment plan, we receive an UUID from the API, with this UUID we can retrieve the status. However we can only use that UUID once. When we try to reuse it we get an error mentioning that the UUID no longer exists. At thi...
11 days ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Advanced site rules validating cross object types

when creating site rules, we are currently limited to validate attributes within the same object. We require site rules that validates settings based on a different object.Examples: When table starts wet REF_ we want it to be in BP1When a table is...
23 days ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow same user for create and approve pull request

Approving a pull request cannot happen bij the same user that created the pull request. Although this might be a best practice, when running these API's in a pipeline, it doesn't really make sense. This authorisation/check will most likely happen ...
23 days ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Support index on expressions for virtual indexes

During the SQL performance tuning for a query having a scalar function (lower case) coded in it, DB2 SQLPA tool was checked to see if there is an option to create a virtual index but since there is no way of creating it in the current version, use...
about 1 year ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Currently =X does not work from any panel, should add this to the product

Must press pf3 to get out of the product, then =X or =XALL
over 5 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Using the TEST function, Need to Filter by Index Name or Table Name

Looking to convert an NPI to DPSI. Need a way to compare access paths of all SQLs that are currently using the NPI to What-if the NPI was not there (aka Virtual Index Delete). The TEST function (Dynamic Explain) currently does not allow filtering ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

RTS stats are not collected, SYSTABLESPACESTATS and SYSINDEXSPACESTATS

RTS statistics should be part of Collect and Apply.
about 5 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration