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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



ADD A NEW IDEA

Clear

Ideas

    Allow alter column to drop NOT NULL constraint

    Currently the only way to remove the NOT NULL constraint from a column is to unload the table, drop-recreate table (or drop-add column) and reload table. Such a small change needs so much effort, and causes unnecessary outage and service disruptio...
    over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Information about index for mapping table in SYSOBJEVENTS is misleading

    When doing a REORG TABLESPACE SHRLEVEL CHANGE both the tablespace and all indexes for it is inserted into SYSIBM.SYSOBJEVENTS. That is as it should be. What is also inserted is the namn of the index for the mapping table used. That is not as OK as...
    3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    DGTT should be able to use more than one work space

    Today one DGTT can only use one work tablespace in the workfile database. If we have one DGTT that need for example 512 GB of data we have to create all tablespaces for DGTT with that size. That is a waste of space. A better solution would be that...
    3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Always allow parameter NOSYSREC for REORG TABLESPACE

    NOSYSREC can be specified för REORG TABLESPACE. It can improve performance for the REORG. There are some situations where NOSYSREC is not allowed. The most common situation is when no data will be sorted during the REORG TABLESPACE job. Examples: ...
    3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Db2 Developer Extension - Add support to execute external COBOL stored procedures from catalog list, save input parameters and reload saved values as well as generating DDL and dropping the stored procedure

    Application Developers use Data Source Explorer in Data Studio to display external COBOL stored procedures from the db2 catalog. They right click and get options to run the stored procedure after inputting values, generate the DDL and can also dro...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Future consideration

    API to write dictionary to log

    A number of our common customers run DB2 utilities from third party vendors and IBM replication solutions. They are requesting that our LOAD and REORG utilities write the old dictionary pages to the log for later retrieval by a replication product...
    almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

    DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL issues a message, TOTAL SYNC I/O DELAY FOR BP?? = ?????????? MILLISECONDS.

    We are currently are running a bufferpool simulation in production. When I issue the command: -DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL(BP40) DETAIL(INTERVAL) The following message is issued: DSNB432I -DPP2 SIMULATED BUFFER POOL ACTIVITY - AVOIDABLE READ PAGE MISSES - ...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    after bind/rebind with VALIDATE(RUN) authorization check of static sql is performed at run time. We need an ability to define, this check against the SQL authorization ID, not package owner

    If a plan or package is bound with VALIDATE(RUN), authorization checking is still performed at bind time, but the referenced objects and the privileges required to use these objects need not exist at this time. If any privilege required for a stat...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    We would like to have global variable to specify work directory in shared location separate from Config directory

    Shared directory for high availability in spectrum symphony cluster usually reside on NAS shares. Since work dir is part of shared directory folders, when NAS shares are backed up using snapshot, work folder with history/paging creates large size ...
    about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

    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...
    12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
    Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.