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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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[Resource Management Policy] Resource plan to allow Time Interval by Day

Resource Plan currently allows Time Interval to be defined. This needs to be extended to allow definition based on day of the week. This will make it possible for Resource plans to be limited to weekdays or weekends depending on usage patterns.
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

control size of UOW after an alter to rotate partition

requesting that DB2 generate reasonably sized URs when performing a mass delete action against a table with DATA CAPTURE set to CHANGES. in a specific case, we were rotating partitions on a base source table which was being replicated with data ca...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Bar particular DB2 group members from castout ownership

Currently the first member of a DB2 share group that lodges group update intent becomes the castout owner for that buffer pool. In the real world some LPARs can be significantly capped damaging write/update performance for the whole share group. W...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Deletion of Empty PBG Partitions with no UTUT access after switch phase

When removing empty partitions in a PBG tablespace after the switch phase of the reorg, the space is put into UTUT access, which causes -904 00C90082 to be returned to the application.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PMC Very Slow to Load User Information From LDAP

When using the PMC, loading the user information takes a very long time. We have over 25,000 users in LDAP. When using the PMC to create a new user it takes a very long time to load the user list. When adding or changing Roles for a user, it takes...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

New pseudo-delete zparms

We've been told that pages trigger pseudo-delete cleanup when they become > 4% free entries. Please make this % a zparm. We would also like the calculation that triggers pseudo-delete cleanup to use another new zparm for the minimum # of entrie...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Improve messaging surrounding the +20272 SQL warning in cases of a -904

A DBA was running an ALTER NOT CLUSTER. The ALTER should have converted the tablespace to table-controlled partitioning, but it encountered a -904. I have copied the output to "additional details". In the SPUFI output, after the -904, the ALTER di...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

[User Interface and Configuration] Comment option for soamcontrol app

There are multiple teams manage apps. One team may not know why the app is disabled by another team. Hence, we request comment option for soamcontrol app command. Besides, there are comment options for both "kill session" and "kill task". It does ...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 4 Not under consideration

Mandatory comments for soamcontrol

Request to make mandatory comments for suspend/kill/resume session and task, and disable app.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Future consideration

Audit log for users logging via WEBGUI

We would like below auto log for users logon via WEBGUI 1. Real desktop IP address to logon WEBGUI in audit log instead of WEBGUI server2. User list for logon WEBGUI on GUI
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Not under consideration