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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



ADD A NEW IDEA

Clear

Ideas

    Trim blanks from 60 byte statement text in IFCID 316

    IFCID 316 contains only the first 60 bytes of the SQL text. Some programs may, for readability, include lots of blank spaces around SQL text. In extreme cases (python scripts) the text is preceded by a line of blanks. In these cases the 60 bytes o...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    New Db2 ZPARM for specifying SMS storage & management classes for FlashCopy image copies

    When doing FlashCopy image copies the Db2 utilities create image copies by ADRDSSU and it passes the same SMS storage & management classes as the Db2 spaces.This is not always wanted as the performance and management requirements are in most c...
    almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

    COPYTOCOPY with new keyword SYSTEMPAGES(YES)

    We do FlashCopy image copies by COPY utility and then a COPYTOCOPY to other media from these FlashCopies. Normally the UNLOAD utility can use these image copies generated by COPYTOCOPY, but in some cases not: as the dictionary was created by INSER...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    To trace the source channel for request coming to Db2

    We use Db2 transaction tagging in Microservices as is but it will only tell you what the current service is .ENDUSER, TRANSACT, WSNAME, CORRNAME, CORRNMBR- this parameter will give you information about service eg. Accounts service, Customer , etc...
    4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Error message improvement when failing to convert tablespace to UTS PBG

    Recently we are converting our old segmented and simple tablespaces to UTS PBG. When converting one of these tablespaces we got an abend and a DUMP showing reason code 00C90101. We opended a case (TS009249828) and analyzing the DUMP DB2 lab conclu...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Dataset Processing (CREATE, DELETE, EXTEND) should get a timelimit

    We had an unimportant pageset, which was defined with ERASE YES. Due to the long timeframe of writing x'00' (ERASE YES) on the tracks of this pageset, another dataset processing (EXTEND) of a very important pageset waits and is timed out. This tim...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Support more granular system parameter settings

    Support the ability to set system parameters at the application level.For example, allow parameters to be specified based on specific:- plan- package (specify collection, package)- authid or role- client info properties DB2 should have the ability...
    over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    APCompare(warning) info when there is a autorebind

    After a production issue due changing Db2 object sql path was changed, we implementing in our shop to use always APCompare(warning) . This works ok for 99% of our changes but some changes in prod that afterwards gets autorebind of packages can sti...
    8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Sample job for REORG of catalog and directory

    We maintain a partly homegrown job to reorg the catalog (DSNDB06) and directory (DSNDB01) table spaces. It is built using sample job DSNTIJCV. It is hard to maintain that job when the catalog and directory changes. Just as Db2 deliver a sample job...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Begin / End COMMIT instrumentation for DRDA, CICS/IMS

    Complex CICS/IMS or DRDA transactions (involving multiple programs with an implicit Commit at the end) are incorrectly presented on the Omegamon Accounting Report/Trace. By design the costs of the tough SYNC (COMMIT) operation are added to the las...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

    By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
    Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.