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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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DSNHDECP usage

The DSNHDECP modules is currently used in our shop and needs to be created for every DB2 subsystem, or data sharing group. This means that we need to create individual SDSNEXIT libraries for each subsystem. We used to have one SDSNEXIT which held ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

[SMC][RFE][WellsFargo] - SMC tasklevel balancing enhancement

Task Level balancing only evaluate the balancing once during the session creation, meaning once the session is created, there is no more dynamic balancing, all tasks will be dispatched to participating cluster according to a static share ratio. Th...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Not under consideration

DB2 V11/V12 Modify Recovery Change

Change Modify Recovery to display the dataset name from ICTYPE='i' (lower case i - BMC cumulative incremental image copies) entries when the row is deleted from SYSIBM.SYSCOPY.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for masking in IDAA

Currently, IDAA does not support DB2 masks. This results in potentially inconsistent information being returned to user (depending on whether the query is routed to IDAA).
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide an easy way to de-allocate the underlying Linear dataset when needed without dropping and recreating table spaces and index spaces.

Component: DDL? Data Definition Language? There are cases when a table has change its usage and may remain empty for a very long time or not use anymore but still required to be defined in Db2. In this case, it would be good to have a better way o...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve DB2 messages(etc DSNB601I)

A message indicating a situation in which SQL can not be executed is an information message.If this is an error message, the system administrator can easily find the error.For example, a DSNB601I message indicating that the buffer pool is full.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Audit policy with userid after a DB2 recycle.

Audit trace starting as per audit policy after a DB2 recycle does not contain USERIDs as per original trace. This is causing change captured SMF records due to a DB2 restart. Is it possible to update the audit policy system to capture trace qualif...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Unexpected DDF/RRSAF rollup records getting sent to accounting trace started with ASID trace qualification

This RFE is in response to IBM Service Request 64334 082 000. APAR PK12365 caused all DDF/RRSAF rollup accounting records to be sent to any active trace requesting IFCID 3 records regardless of trace qualification. This causes unwanted overhead an...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

IFCID 401 records should not be lost at DB2 STOP

DB2 10 gives the abilty to track statement level monitoring in the new IFCID 401 etc. These can be read by users using IFI but users not keep on this can let DB2 send the IFCID to SMF or GTF when package is ejected from the EDM-pool. However when ...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide DISPLAY command option to generate XML

The various DISPLAY commands in DB2 return a lot of useful data. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to store the output in a DB2 table. If every DISPLAY command came with an option that returned the output in loadable XML format, we could store t...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration