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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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DB2 should be enhanced in order to use a parmlib dataset to contain initialization parameters (ZPARMS), rather than requiring

DB2 should be enhanced in order to use a parmlib dataset to contain initialization parameters (ZPARMS), rather than requiring an assembly and link-edit of a load module to contain them.
over 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

DB2 IFCID fields too small to accomodate data

As described in PMR 46301,820,820 the following fileds in DB2 needs to be changed to handle binary overflow which is common on customer installation:- Number of getpage requests. F QBACGET- The number of requests to lock a resource. F QTXALOCK - T...
over 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

[HostFactory][RFE][PIMCO] Cloud GUI lack of requestor configuration

Hostfactory Cloud GUI lack of requestor configuration while there is service and providers
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

[HostFactory] Cloud GUI lack of searching function (PIMCO)

Currently, there is no search or filter feature for cloud host and request. There are more than 300 hosts and hundreds requests every day. Very inconvenience for users.
about 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Planned for future release

Alter IX / TS page size at individual partition level

For MSOR application: For very large TS / IX with thousands of partitions, deployed in a 24 x 7 environment, the restriction of having to alter page size at the TS / IX level rather than by individual partitions is unrealistic for customers. The c...
over 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Index-Only tables

request, xref MR1113081118 For a table where all columns are used in the primary index, allow only the index definition rather than having to define tablespace and indexspace, or have the table use an index access like process, rather than a table...
over 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 z/OS v10 - Change the ALTER native_SQL_proc REGENERATE statement to accept APRETAINDUP, APREUSE, and APCOMPARE options.

This change needs to be made so customers can REGENERATE NSPs in DB2 Version 10 for VSCR and potential CPU savings without changing access paths. Furthermore, the same reasons used to justify adding APRETAINDUP, APREUSE, and APCOMPARE options to t...
over 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSNTIAUL sample code size limit

DSNTIAUL sample csect provided with DB/2 V12 has a size that span two 4K pages. To address these 8K it uses two base register, but in case we have to modify code to adapt it to our need the remaining space is too short so there is a need for a thi...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

A new system config report to report delta changes (for DB2 Z/OS)

We have walked through with Jason Sizto on this item. We are on DSM V 2.1.5.2 and it runs on Linux. Our DB2 runs on Z/OS. • Currently, comparison reports are generated weekly and result will show differences for every generation period.• For mos...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Make VPSEQT 100 XI-refresh feature delivered in PI59168 available for non-PGSTEAL-NONE pools or objects.

In PI59168, IBM delivered an enhancement for PGSTEAL NONE bufferpools, whereby setting VPSEQT to 100, Db2 would automatically refresh objects that experienced pseudo-close. This rectified a huge issue at our shop where pseudo-closed objects had to...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration