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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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Create partitioned LOBs to be used with PBR AND PBG tables

If you create a PBR with a lob column you must create a uniquely named LOB table in support of each PBR partition. Consider table with 550 parts. Creation of each LOB TS/Table by part is time consuming and error prone. Verification that all parts ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

EGO command 'egosh' should support both -json and -o "column1 column2 ..." like other commands

The current egosh command output is formatted in a way that does not make for easy parsing by customers. It would be nice if it follows the LSF convention of providing both a -json output format, and an columnar output format using -o "column1:xx ...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 0 Planned for future release

Support GROUPING SETS and SUPER GROUPS by IDAA

Because GROUPING SETS and SUPER GROUPS are not supported by IDAA, the sqls that contain these features canot be accelerated. Please see also pmr 06487,999,756
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Alter Database CCSID to UNICODE

The CCSID of a database is only allowed to be ALTERed within the encoding scheme (in this case EBCDIC) and only to/from the euro-equivalent CCSID of the original EBCDIC CCSID. This is a legacy restriction at the design level. After converting all ...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Multiple windows for SQL Results

When using the Data perspective to run SQL you have to independently click on the SQL results to view the result for each run in the right hand window. Suggestion would be to make it possible to break out each result into its own movable window, b...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow certain Table ALTERs when Table has defined View(s)

Allow certain Table ALTERs to be performed if the Table has a defined VIEW. The attached file contains the Table DDL and ALTER statement for this RFE's Use Case.
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

CVA on AWS: Hostfactory: Redirect workload of an application to a specific resource group by its resource tag

This request was raised by our client during a CVA on AWS implementation discussion. The 1st case: 1. At minimum, they want to have 2 resource groups created 2. The 1st resource group, is a resource group which contains servers with a fixed capa...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Functionality already exists

MGMTCLASS is not adopted by LISTDEF

MGMTCLASS is not adopted by LISTDEF USE CASE: //SYSIN DD * TEMPLATE COPYTEM1 DSN('DBQ1F.&DB..&SN..N&DSNUM..&UQ.') MGMTCLAS FCRET10
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Include Pversion in SMC 7.2.x

Include Pversion in SMC 7.2.x
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 1 Planned for future release

Flashcopy abend REASON=X'00E40070 RFE 129327

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=129327 DB2 development recognized there is some room for storage usage improvement for processing of sequential copy and flashcopy together, though this would require a redes...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration