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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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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.

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Audit 145 records; always supply a (non-zero) QW0145SI value.

As per PH04538, under the current design, "we are afraid that zero QW0145SI can not be eliminated as it happens when the stmt is not cached nor static base on current design. "
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

add support for SIs in containers on Windows

Add feature parity for running service instances in containers. This page should be equally applicable to both windows and linux - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZUMP_7.3.0/management_sym/docker_overview.htmlTo the extent that windo...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Planned for future release

Improve optimizers cost estimation when recursive table expression invloved

Please refer to case TS004038133. Application developer uses SQL EXPLAIN to compare the cost of different SQL statement and decides which one to use. In one case, they found EXPLAIN reported lower cost for one SQL than other but in actual executio...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Deployment Of Native SQL Stored Procedures With Validate(Bind) Is Call Order Dependent

For DB2 V10 and V11. When NSPs are created with Validate(Bind), they have to be deployed in reverse call order or the the bind deploys will fail with a procedure not found error. If NSPs are created with Vaildate(Run) to get around this limitation...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

allow SMC to balance the workloads automatically if new cluster is added

Allow SMC to balance the workloads automatically from a silo cluster that is heavyly used to a new cluster when this one is available.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Future consideration

Add SORTNPSI_USED To SYSIBM.SYSINDEXSPACESTATS

Use case/business impact. All indexes reorged on Sunday. Run daily process to identify any index needing reorged by interrogating RTS. Since NPSI organization can rapidly deteriorate, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Fri...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Lightweight API to get MDS demand and allocation stats

Lightweight API to get MDS demand and allocation stats
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Planned for future release

Support Common Table Expression (CTE) in NTE

Today, the using of Common Table Expression (CTE) is limited only to the beginning of the select statement. There are many products, specially open source, but not only, that take every select statement and cover it by SELECT * from (nte). When ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Every logon attempt should be logged with source IP information

Every logon event should be logged and with source IP address. This is for audit purpose, and also for identifying the source host that issues failed attempts.
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 1 Future consideration

Service Package Version Reset and/or Forsibly Deploy

If Symphony shared directory was restored by some reasons (ex. Disaster Recovery, Hardware Renewal, Hardware broken, etc.), RS couldn't deply newer SI package until the version number was incremented to the version number deployed on compute node....
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration