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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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Achieve less than 10 seconds site switch by coordinated interactions between DB2 and QREP

To achieve less than 10 seconds site switch by coordinated interactions between DB2 and QREP Description: Only need to issue one command, then finish all following operations: 1. Turn on SOFTFENCE for entire database (can be at DB Level), protecti...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Improve adaptive indexes for multi-column indexes

Currently adaptive index works great for single column indexes, but the following example multiple index is not considered:SELECT something FROM T1 WHERE col1 BETWEEN :H1 AND :H2 AND col2 BETWEEN :H3 AND :H4and there are indexes I1 on (col1, co...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PIPE support for UDTF

We would like to see PIPE support added to allow DB2 to return rows as they are created from a select of UDTF.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support global array definitions

Allow a global schema for user defined types.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Deadlock between 2 Inserts because of Pseudo Deletes

We recently ran into deadlocks issue while doing QA tests for a major application delivery, our DB2 traces revealed that the deadlocks were always between 2 inserts, what we did not understand was why there was a S lock (on a ROW/PAGE) in deadlock...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

sym7202 HF - return host with MDS Plan

The requestor script only considers slots for returning hosts. It doesn't consider MDS allocation
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Planned for future release

Flops unit on compute

Add Flops unit of compute on Symphony and Multi-Cluster in addition of CPU unit. Add this metric capacity on host information and on the resource plan.More over it'll be very interesting for Cloud computing.
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

User-based scheduling policy by SSM

Add a new scheduling policy to consider resources a user used and make it fair among users. We could call it user-based (fair share) scheduling policy. For example, for N users that has active sessions, each user can only get 1/N of total allocate...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Retry to start SD on a different host

ESC_SERVICE_START_FAIL_RETRY parameter helps to retry to restart services but if a host is experiencing problem, it will run out of retry limit then move service to Error status. There should be a option to try to startup EGO service, for example ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

[SMC][RFE][CA-CIB] - SMC - On GUI add role assignment for users

instead of using egosh role command, we would like to manage easily our user on SMC cluster PMR ID : TS000975161
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Not under consideration