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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    Ability for Reorg Reclaim Extents decrease page count from columnar tables

    Currently the Page Count (value seen in column COL_OBJECT_L_PAGES from MON_GET_TABLE) is never reduced even after running Reorg Reclaim Extents.In a columnar table that suffers insert/update/delete we may get into a situation where Db2 will indica...
    4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

    Reverse engineer ZPARM to ASM format like in DSNTIJUZ

    Very often the source code of any given ZPARM for a Db2 for z/OS subsystem "disappears". Be it holiday, be it by accident, be it CANCEL after submit... Whatever the reason, the problem is the same: You have a running version of the ZPARM that does...
    5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Issue an appropriate message instead of a dump in case of 00E20015 occurrence

    A clear DSN... message indicating the problem ASCB is more helpful than a dump. The asid (in R2) could be already another ASCB, so this is ambiguous. The dump could be supressed in my opinion. We have such a lot of cases in which we are forced to ...
    28 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    "smooth" way to delete an index by mark the index deprecated before drop

    We would like to have an option to drop an index in a "smooth" way. package invalidation Idea is, that an index could be marked as "deprecated". This should have the effect, that this index is no longer chosen during BIND/REBIND for use in new c...
    20 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Add time option for expensive trace

    I am hearing customers are having issues or aren't wanting to execute expensive traces due to risk. How about adding a timer option to these types of traces so they will run and then automatically turn off to prevent issues and help adoption/confi...
    2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    If Db2 boosts a thread, it should have preference over other boost activities (like zIIP boost)

    We had the situation that some threads (DDF threads) hold a latch and this latch is required also for Db2 system tasks. The Db2 boost does not help in this situation because we use zIIP boost during IPL. So from a WLM perspective higher prioritize...
    30 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    The basic commands should have an option to output machine processable format like JSON

    Using automation tools like Ansible would benefit greatly if commands like db2cm, db2ls, db2 li node/db directory, db2 db/dbm cfg and so on would be able output in JSON format.
    about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

    Match Correlation ID from DIS THREAD with DIS ARCHIVE

    We had a problem with a CDC tool because it was reading/requesting Archlogs.With DIS ARCHIVE we could easily identify that it was the CDC tool. With DIS THREAD you could see that there are many different processes coming from that tool.Now you nee...
    22 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Granular grant-able authorization to allow explaining all statements stored in DSC

    Currently there is a requirement to hold at least SQLADM authority to explain statements kept in DSC, and which were executed with a different SQLID. This is security exposure as for such basic action like statement explain it gives the user all t...
    2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Enhancing Guidance and Documentation for Db2: Recommendations for New Features and Db2 Performance Resources.

    Customer is using Db2 with 4K_DEVICE OS(z/Linux) and they were unsure whether to enable the new DB2_4K_DEVICE_SUPPORT feature and requested an improvement because they did not have enough information to make a decision. Improvement of Guidance on ...
    13 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

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