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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Adding new values to CHECK Constraints should not put Table in CHECK PENDING

There are many instances today when existing CHECK Constraints have to be modified to add additional values. Currently, making any modifications to CHECK Constraints to add or remove values requires that the Constraint be dropped and re-created. T...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow customers to specify a name for SYSINSTL ID instead of forcing "SYSINSTL"

Currently, IBM allows customers to install Db2 for z/OS under Install SYSOPR authority. This requires that the customer specify "SYSINSTL" as the installer ID in several key steps of the DB2 Install CLIST. "SYSINSTL" is then used for definition of...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Multiple-event triggers

Provide increased flexibility for Developers and better compatibility across the DB2 family. In the recent zBLC present regarding SQLPL support for Triggers being proposed for Cypress, on of the items that it was mentioned that will not be availab...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Minimum dependencies for clients

The client libraries and dependencies of Symphony is around 1.4GB, which include dependencies for many languages.We are currently minimizing the size of all projects, so we need a version with the minimum libraries needed to make the client work. ...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

JSON_TABLE enhancement

JSON_TABLE UDF support in DB2 z/OS - while providing some support for parsing JSON documents does not have a robust functionality like JSON_TABLE in I series. Providing a more robust full functionality support - similar to XMLTABLE will allow easy...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Enable alter partition values on XML tables

We use a lot of XML tables today on our environment. We need to alter the limitkey defined for partitions in DB2. According to the manual, the DB2 correct behavior is to return sqlcode -109 when alter table partition (XML TABLE) is executed.
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support different applications recursive direct connect to SSM

We have currently configured our recursive application to use two different applications (parent and child), in order to accommodate the hostfactory restriction of using ondemand for parent application and spot fleet for child application. In doin...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Future consideration

Enhancement to Display Procedure Command - V12-CERT-2017

Would like the ability to further filter procedures by their status when using the display procedure command.
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Podman container for windows service instances on Linux

We are looking for a solution to run Windows applications podman containers on Linux compute hosts
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Not under consideration

Support values greater than 4GB for task input/output in Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2

Support values greater than 4GB for task input/output in Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration