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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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SQLCODE -327 reporting

SQLCA and GET DIAGNOSTICS do not include the impacted table name when reporting SQLCODE -327. The table experiencing the issue has to be found in the subsystem... manually.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support "=" in task ResourcePreference

Allow customer to specify a resource requirement string like "intexnode=1" in task ResourcePreference class
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

Temporal Logical Transactions - code transparency

Temporal support for system time is being enhanced in DB2 12 to support logical transactions. However the implementation chosen requires that applications that will explore this feature is being recoded.
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

[RFE][UC] - RHEL/CentOS domain names / FQDNs too long - Arbitrary Symphony limit at 64 chars

FQDNs (of compute hosts, in this example) can not exceed 64 characters in length. Otherwise, they fail to join the cluster.
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

[Workload Monitoring and Management] Show output from service start command

Currently SIM log shows generic error if service start commnd fails: The service startCmd command specified in the Application Profile terminated unexpectedly with exit code: 127 State : Exit. It doesn't much help to understand what was wrong on s...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 5 Not under consideration

Support for different MTU size between SD/SSM and Compute hosts in Platform Symphony

We would like to see Platform Symphony support different network MTU size such as 1500 and 9000 on different Symphony servers so SD/SSM can be at 1550 MTU and compute nodes can run at 9000 MTU and vice-versa. Basically we want Platform Symphony to...
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Take or session timeout defined on client site

Currently, user can only set take timout in application profile under method “onInvoke” in “Error Handling” Section . We request to flexiblly control the timeout for session or task at client side via API
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 2 Not under consideration

Add EXPLAINABLE column to DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE

Currently, some unEXPLAINable statements are captured into DSN_STATEMENT_CACHE_TABLE when user does EXPLAIN STMTCACHE ALL. e.g. UPDATE / DELETE statement with positional update:UPDATE T1 set C1=? WHERE CURRENT OF CURSOR001; It would be nice if the...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

soam and ego restful api

Request soam and ego restful api for symphony 6.1.1
over 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 4 Not under consideration

"INDEX ONLY" index scan should be used instead of tablespace scan when it performs better.

We were analyzing the optimization of the following query: SELECT MAX(A.COL1) FROM MY_TABLE A WHERE A.COL2= ? WITH UR ; There is an index that exists for MY_TABLE that has a first column of COL1 and a second column of COL2. DB2 was using a tablesp...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration