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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    Allow TAPEUNITS to use virtual tape drives

    The COPY utility utilizing templates allows for TAPEUNITS(0) to let COPY decide the appropriate number of physical tape drives to use. If all tape drives are virtual, copy will only use one tape drive. This requires hard coding TAPEUNITS(n) to get...
    over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Additional capabilities for tracking and managing distributed applications.

    Be able to Tag IP addresses and other identifiers to group them together and provide the capability to watch or capture activity /errors/issues by the tag.Also, add currentPackageset (Collection) as an identifier for SQL captures. Tagging would al...
    over 5 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Provide capability to pass a job name as a parameter to ADMIN_UTL_SCHEDULE stored procedure

    Provide the capability to pass an additional input parameter to the ADMIN_UTL_SCHEDULE stored procedure. The parameter should accept up to 8 alphanumeric characters. The value of the parameter will then be used as the job name that gets generated ...
    over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    remove restrictions on which value expressions can be used with like predicate

    IBM Cognos has previously request DB2 Z to remove restrictions on what value expressions can be used in a like predicate. Those restrictions are not imposed by DB2 LUW or I and other vendors. The impact on IBM Cognos (and customers) is that busine...
    over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    More Granularity on DISPLAY command authority (display procedure)

    We'd appreciate if there was a more granular level of authority to permit schema owners of stored procedures to be able to display status of stored procedures. We are concerned from an audit standpoint that granting system-display privilege would ...
    over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Make regression functions from DB2 LUW supported in DB2 z/OS

    Implement regression functions in DB2 z/OS that have been available in DB2 LUW for several years. The two highest priority functions are REGR_SLOPE and REGR_INTERCEPT.
    over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    New DB2OPT Parameter

    Would like a DB2OPT parameter to specify/override the SECURITY attribute for API's like GET_CONFIG. Currently, it is defaulting to DEFINER in the DSNTIJRT job. We are having to ALTER it after-the-fact from DEFINER to USER.
    over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    VLDB - 358 Eliminate the need to define a set number of 32k and 4k tablespaces in the work file database

    Instead of defining a set number of 4k and 32k tablespaces, it would simplify the process if we could allocate a set amount of space to the work database and allow DB2 to dynamically allocate the tablespaces as needed. As the page size requirement...
    over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Provide a way to fix XML versioning after copying XML TS with DSN1COPY

    If DSN1COPY or similar procedure is used to copy XML tablespace that was initially created with 6-byte RBA/LRSN format and later converted to 10-byte RBA/LRSN format to a tablespace that was initially created with 10-byte RBA/LRSN format, then sub...
    almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    RECOVER DB2 TO A LOCAL TIME

    Hi teamA lot of time, we are thinking about how save time, cpu and locking if QUIESCE didn´t appear in every chain we have running in our site.How to solve this problem: very easy, if the operation department had a RECOVER TO LOCAL TIME option, b...
    over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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