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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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Require to support open JAVA JDK25 for symphony applications

Our application CVA will face out open java lower version < 17 per company policy, and moving onto Jdk21 (delivered) and Jdk25 soon.
4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Set RG preference level for consumer via RESTful API

Address the missing functionality of RESTful API
4 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Add HASHID2 as a "return value" from PREPARE

These days all firms are trying to track vast amounts of dynamic SQL and to see if any new/changed/old SQL will still run in the acceptable time frames and SLAs we all now live and strive for. The problem now is when you PREPARE an SQL you do not ...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Command to display the DB2 early code

Customer wants to apply new early code with REFRESH DB2, EARLY by automation software. To be sure that they apply new code, they want to display the early code before the REFRESH DB2 command. Unfortunately this command is not yet implemented, and ...
over 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Data Studio does not support IPV6 addressing

Currently Data Studio does not support IPV6 addressing. We are now running with IPV4 and that works fine but are now testing IPV6 for future use. Data Server Manager does work with IPV6 and Data Studio should as well. We tested with 6 part address...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Rename column should be possible if View is on table

We encountered that Rename column is not possible if a View esists on the appropriate table. We would like to exploit this new function (Rename Column), but we have views, which does not allow that. We already have a similar requirement MR02141152...
over 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add utility eventid to IFCID 23,24 and 25

The new utility tables have eventid, but this isn't in the utility audit ifcids, so by adding it, then gives easy matching between any utility audit table and the system utility tables Also the system utility table could have gaps due to data not ...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

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