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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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Enhance Utility History Tables to record DSNTIAUL unloads

I am missing that the unloads made with DSNTIAUL be recorded at the Utilities History tables. In fact, I came here to vote an idea like this, taking for granted that someone had already opened it asking for this. :-) Sorry if there's already one, ...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Support LOCATION Wildcards and Subnet Matching for Query Accelerator Offload Profiles

We use Db2 Profiles to manage queries that are candidates for acceleration due to their execution cost, but that originate from ETL processes distributed across all departments of our company. Processes such as Sqoop, NiFi, Kafka, Spark, PowerCent...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Under review

Enable Compression for Selected DSNDB06 Tables

There is currently a restriction that prevents table spaces within DSNDB06 from being compressed. It is worth reviewing whether this restriction remains necessary for the SYSUTILITIES, SYSOBJEVENTS, and Real-Time Statistics (RTS) History tables. T...
15 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enhancement to improve Db2 z/OS v13 storage management resilience

We recently experienced some DB2 abends caused by the communication buffer pool being full. A single application consumed most of the buffer space. Currently, the communication buffer pool is 6 gigabytes in size, but there is no way to adjust or m...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Reconsidering the Db2 restriction that prevents execution of an alter column set default type when a table is referenced by a view.

From a DBA's perspective changing the default value of a column is a metadata change that does not alter the column definition, data type, length, nullability, or structure of the table. Existing data remains unchanged, and dependent views continu...
7 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

GROUP BY Sort Improvement

The current GROUP BY ordering processing requires huge workfile for large records, data is read once for ordering and again for grouping purpose. To improve performance, this processing could be done in SORT where it collapses records earlier and ...
8 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow Redirected Recovery from System Level Backups

Currently redirected recovery is not supported for system level backups (SLB's). The Db2 V13 documentation states:"Restore of concurrent copies and system-level backups is not supported; these types of backups are ignored by redirected recovery".A...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Simplify REVOKE by REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES and RETAIN OBJECTS

1) REVOKE of old grants is complex due to many things that might not be revokable in the same revoke - if one fails the entire statement fails. Usually privileges are revoked due to a person leaving or moving into different a different role . REVO...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

SYMREST add disable/enable Symphony application feature

Users want to manage Symphony applications and workload via SYMREST service which cannot bounce an application per ticket TS022907381 . Bounce (disable/enable) application is a very basic operation in application management.
9 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Display CDDS command

We opened both TS022609404 & TS022550954 and had a question on the ability to add a DISPLAY CDDS. We understand there is no current such command, but you can issue a DISPLAY LOG command and get a DSNJ375I message giving the CDDS name and the m...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review