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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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CI/CD Expert - support shared-environment deployment for structurally identical objects across subsidiary databases

Our organization splits identical Db2 objects (same tablespace and table names) across multiple databases (EDCAD001, EDCAD002, EDCAD003, and so on) to satisfy governmental regulatory separation between business subsidiaries. CI/CD Expert currently...
29 days ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS 0 Submitted

Recovery Expert to support the building of FlashCopy Image Copies from SLB's

Currently we cannot recover individual tablespaces from an SLB (System Level Backup) to a new tablespace (redirected recover) using either the RECOVER utility or Recovery Expert. We can produce a normal Image Copy from the SLB using Recovery Exper...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Support Redirected Recovery from Systems Level Backups in Recovery Expert

As a companion idea to the support of redirected recoveries from System Level Backups (SLB's) by the IBM RECOVER utility that I have raised under - IBM Ideas can Recovery Expert or Recovery Expert Pro be enhanced to provide this functionality as a...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Enhance Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS to be able to reload accelerated AND replicated tables and re-enable the acceleration post-recovery.

We end up after a recover with Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS with accelerated and replicated tables coming in to ERROR state which we need to load afterwards before we can re use them causing impact .
about 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

CICDE To Support the ability to Redeploy a Previously Deployed Release

Today if you try to redeploy a release that has already been deployed to a deployment environment the deployment fails - even if that release had been backed off with a recover. A release is deployed to a test environment too early, for example, a...
4 months ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Ability to select objects by package

Add the ability to add all the objects for a package instead of having to add each one. Current process is very inefficient.
over 2 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Future consideration

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...
5 months 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 ...
5 months 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...
5 months ago in Db2 CI/CD Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Ability to exclude PBR partitions/TS PBG that had no activity before JCL generation

No description provided
over 2 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 3 Not under consideration