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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 Unload from a Cursor

Enhance the Db2 UNLOAD utility to perform an unload from a declared cursor
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance of EXPLAIN

With early versions of DB2 the performance of EXPLAIN was not relevant. Nowadays, where DBAs do thousands of EXPLAINs, the performance and turnaround is getting critical. I think there is room for better performance and throughput of mass EXPLAINs...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Provide SCOPE(GROUP) option for STOP/START PROFILE

Provide for a SCOPE(GROUP) option for START/STOP PROFILE commands similar to START/STOP PROCEDURE.
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Efficient READA

I was monitoring a task in my product. This task executes a call to the READA service to obtain the current READA buffer when posted by DB2. I was monitoring to determine why the CPU usage by that task was high. My analysis determined that 99% of ...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enhance DSNT375I deadlock message to include DRP global variable use

Following the introduction of the CURRENT LOCK TIMEOUT (CLT) special register and DEADLOCK_RESOLUTION_PRIORITY (DRP) global variable with EPIC 8876, the DSNT376I timeout message has been enhanced to show the timeout values used for both requester ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

DB2: Enhancing DB2 decision making during starting up in DEFER ALL mode

We would like to enhance the DB2 product when starting a database with the "defer all" zparm parameter. It is unfortunate that there is a limit of 2500 in place, and it is also unfortunate that the trusted context is not automatically built, even ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Improving serviceability and messaging for REORG TABLESPACE LASTLOG NO processing

We are using LASTLOG NO option and get the error message "DSNU590I DSNURLOG - RESOURCE NOT AVAILABLE, REASON=X'00C9000A',"The current explanation of the reason code does not match the behaviour which is happening here. After opening a case they ex...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Create INDEX and SKPT lock. DDL and continuous availability.

Working in a banking 24x7 environment without any maintenance window our concurrency issues with DDL changes are increasing more and more everyday as our workload increases. There are some concurrency problems that we think it should value the eff...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

SQL override support for IDENTITY columns

The global variable SYSIBMADM.REPLICATION_OVERRIDE introduced in Db2 V12 FL503 allows products like IBM Db2 Log Analysis Tool to override values for row-begin, row-end, transaction-start-ID, and generated expression columns in temporal tables. We ...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

DSN Systemprofile history of command -STA PROFILE

DSN Systemprofiles are controlled via Catalogtables DSN_PROFILE_TABLE and DSN_PROFILE_ATTRIBUTES which have corrosponding history- table. In those history tables, past states of profiles are stored. However, since a profile entry is not activated ...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration