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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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Native UTF-8 Support in Db2 DSNxLI Interfaces

We have some issues with customer's name, as we don't have this special characters in our codepage. So we try to use UTF-8 on the mainframe (as the data is coming raw in as UTF-8). PL/I and COBOL newly supports native UTF-8: COBOL: PIC U, PL/I: UC...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Refresh MQT access

We have a situation where the application team wants the access to refresh their MQTs, but all the available options give them over entitlements other than just refresh. • Ownership of the materialized query table - gives application team access t...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Built-in functionality to create process dump

Sometime IBM support need dumps from Symphony processes for troubleshot. It could be usefull to have CLI, API and WEBGUI access to trigger a process dump. Command line example egosh createDump SD /tmp (which should create a dump of SD process and ...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

Unblock a list of compute for all applications

Have the possibility to unblock a list of compute nodes for all applications (usefull when compute nodes have encounter an issue, resolved, that impacted a set or all applications of the grid)
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Windows 2016 docker container support

Support Windows server 2016 containers (it is the Socgen target) for Symphony workloads.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

FORMAT INTERNAL with REORG DISCARD

REORG with DISCARD does not support FORMAT INTERNAL like UNLOAD and LOAD. REORG with DISCARD is used in many use cases for Archiving OLD data. Having FORMAT INTERNAL in REORG with DISCARD would be good if DISCARD dataset is in INTERNAL format for ...
almost 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 for z/OS V11 Unneccessary Index Open & Lock

For index scans, DB2 is unnecessarily opening and locking an index partition.
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

[RFE][PIMCO] - Host Factory - Private Cloud Burst - Cisco Unified Computing System

We would request private cloud burst, Cisco UCS running on VMware. is supported in Symphony 7.2
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 7 Not under consideration

Mapping Z/OS Enclaves to DB2 Threads

We have an application running on Z/linux the application access DB2 on Z/OS through DDF. The application has few threads active in DB2 and we have ENCLAVE active in Z/OS we are trying to map which enclave belongs to which DB2 thread. If we can ge...
about 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IFCID 316 needs counter for tablespace scans on user tables only

Customers tool uses QW0316NT that is showen as tablespace scans. This counter does not only include scans on user tables but also on workfiles.. QW0316NT (or STAT_RSCN) intentionally includes scans of all workfiles... not only workfiles used for s...
over 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration