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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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    Transparent Archiving for Partition-by-Range (PBR) Tablespaces

    Feature Proposal: In-Place Transparent Archiving for PBR Tablespaces Current transparent archiving frameworks require duplicating table structures, mapping base-to-archive targets, and running resource-intensive DELETE routines to purge old data. ...
    2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Automated Stored Procedure & Function Upgrade Job

    Current Pain Point: Upgrading Db2 UDFs and stored procedures to newer compatibility modes (e.g., V13R1M507) requires tedious tracking, manual validation, and repetitive ALTER/RECREATE. Unlike on package level when you can specify rebind with (COLL...
    2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Provide one Db2 message to indicate that GRECP and LPL recovery is complete across a Db2 data sharing group.

    We use automation to drive our disaster recovery processes to reduce the recovery time and remove human interaction. We have been running into issues with starting software products that require access to Db2 before it has completed GRECP and LPL ...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Make IFI process zIIP eligible

    With more and more data being replicated off host, the replication tasks are increasingly using more and more CPU to read the logs. Allowing the IFI read process to be zIIP eligible would help reduce our general purpose CPU consumption. This would...
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    DB2 Return Code Differentiate for Deadlock and Timeout via Subsys Normal Call Exit

    DB2 presents IMS ( via Subsystem Normal Call Exit ) with the same return code (4) for: DB2 resource deadlocks DB2 resource unavailable conditions Example, lock timeouts on object locks, such as are taken by DB2 utilities and those caused b...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

    TRANSFER OWNERSHIP for ALIAS for table or view

    To drop an alias for a table or view you need high privileges (SYSADM, SYSCTRL or System DBADM) or ownership of the alias. Aliases that were created before DB2 V9 do not have an owner and some other aliases have the wrong owner. It would help a lo...
    9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

    Improvements in online DDL changes - DBD design

    Our company uses DB2 zOS almost exclusively for dynamic SQL workloads. Our management expects that DB2 zOS also has high availability regarding DDL changes in this application szenario. If you intend to perform DDL changes in this environment duri...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 16 Planned for future release

    DSNTEP2/DSNTEP4 program parameter to specify the output record length without the need to recompile the program

    we are in the process of migrating IBM tools and utilities from a third party vendor to IBM software and we need a program to run SQL select statements in batch with an output record length greater than 133 characters. In the IBM manual for sample...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Create a PBR table with specified physical partition order

    Sometimes it is required to create a copy of an existing table that will exactly match the existing table. And as physical and logical partitions in PBR can be out of order, that includes the existing order of physical partition numbers. CREATE TA...
    4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Implicit Tablespaces for conversion of multi-table tablespaces to UTS PBG

    When converting multi-table tablespaces to universal tablespaces with new command ALTER TABLESPACE MOVE TABLE you need to create a new tablespace for each table explicitely before you can use the command. It would be very nice if the ALTER TABLESP...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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