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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    Db2 native and RACF security consistency requirement

    This is especially important for shops like ours where for years DB2 native security and migrate to RACF security to be complaint with security audit and policies, and also new mainframe applications standards. There is multiple areas where curren...
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Deposit some information about latch status in HVCOMMON to avoid Db2 abend

    Db2 abended due to EOM in one of its threads (in this case an online REORG). The request is that some more information about thread status is saved in common storage (e.g. HVCOMMON) to help SSSC to cleanup the job and to avoid that it must take do...
    2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    REBIND allocated plan

    Before going to Db2 13 we have to rebind some plans that were last bound in Db2 10. We have also previously got the recommendation to rebind all plans when we have migrated to a new Db2 version. We have a problem with plans that are always allocat...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Make Auto-start of PROFILE More Robust

    We have experienced PROFILE auto-start failure when the DB2 Recovery process was not complete. Hopefully, a change is made to the DB2 product to make auto-start succeed even in cases like that.
    about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Enhance RECOVERY utility to use information in a Safe Guarded Copy snapshot as recovery base for Db2 object level recovery

    We do a Safe Guarded Copy (SGC) every 2 hours. The ongoing value for SGC is for now primarily as an insurance for a CyberAttack by providing a last good copy. The idea is 'simply' - although I know there is likely nothing simple in this - to be ab...
    about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Reduce DSNB555I messages

    Hi, this idea is related case TS020701291 - Excessive number of DSNB555I messages. We are working for improve performance on DB2 applications and a important point is BufferPools with AUTOSIZE(Y) and PGFIX(Y), but we found that every WLM action se...
    about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

    DSNTEP2/DSNTEP4 program parameter to specify the output record length without the need to recompile the program

    we are in the process of migrating IBM tools and utilities from a third party vendor to IBM software and we need a program to run SQL select statements in batch with an output record length greater than 133 characters. In the IBM manual for sample...
    7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Provide one Db2 message to indicate that GRECP and LPL recovery is complete across a Db2 data sharing group.

    We use automation to drive our disaster recovery processes to reduce the recovery time and remove human interaction. We have been running into issues with starting software products that require access to Db2 before it has completed GRECP and LPL ...
    11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Increase DSSIZE of SYSTSPKS in DSNDB06 (SYSIBM.SYSPACKSTMT) from 64 GB to 256 GB

    We just finished a clean-up of old, unused packages and did a reorg of SYSTSPKS in DSNDB06 (= Table SYSIBM.SYSPACKSTMT. According to RTS we still see a usage size of 28 GB (= 44.27 % of 64 GB size limit) for this tablespace in large development an...
    4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Enable dropping tablespace partitions without changing to data capture none

    With the ability to convert tablespaces from PBR to PBG and back, we are now able to drop partitions in both PBRs and PBGs. However, this requires that we switch off data capture on the table for the duration of the change.As we are using CDC to r...
    3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

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