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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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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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ARCRETN separation for copy1 and 2

We control the archive log retention for our shop using the ARCRETN zparm which controls both logcopy1 and locopy2. We would like the ability to control these independently as we have application data requirements to retain data for longer periods...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IBM Enterprise COBOL / Db2 coprocessor - Validate Db2 cursor names at compile time

Hi, The IBM Enterprise COBOL compiler supports the translation of Db2 statements (delegating them to the compiler's integrated coprocessor).These Db2 statements can reference read cursors, and cursors have an identifier. We noted that only the EXE...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Db2 To Provide A Way To Override Certain Implicit Table Space Parameters Default Values

TSYS has QMF applications running in 6 UAT and Production Db2 environments. There are approximately 2,600+ client users running QMF queries and procs for their applications in those Db2 environments. Many of the users are creating temporary tables...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Reduce shutdown time - allow for reduction of Db2 footprint before STOP DB2

As the Db2 footprint on our mainframe systems has increased (larger bufferpools, larger GBPs, more open datasets), one of the challenges we have faced is that Db2 takes longer to shut down. Our shop has recently focused on reducing down-time and i...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Prevent VPSIZE(0) Bufferpool When Objects Exist

The idea would be to have a restriction or rule in place to prevent an alter bufferpool to VPSIZE(0) when objects exist. Setting it to zero when unintended can cause major problems.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reorg Shrlevel CHANGE for Tables with Index on Expression Index

Currently a REORG shrlevel CHANGE is not possible on UTS tablespaces which have an expression Index (Index on Expression) defined to them. the message below gets issued: DSNU076I DSNURFIT - KEYWORD=SHRLEVEL CHANGE INVALID FOR EXPRESSION-BASED INDE...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Eliminate x-locks on CREATE INDEX DEFER YES to improve concurrency

This is similar to DB24ZOS-I-1114 and DB24ZOS-I-1689. When attempting to create an index with CREATE INDEX DEFER YES, there should be no need to lock packages that are dependent on the table. Requiring an x-lock doesn't seem necessary. With phase-...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Pseudo IFCID 316

When using REOPT(ALWAYS) on a batch package to deliberately avoid filling the Dynamic Statement Cache (DSC) the SQL is, correctly, not inserted into the DSC and is not exrternalized by an IFCID 316. However this then "hides" the workload from moni...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

RUNSTATS with exception consideration

All DB2 customers use RUNSTATS. The RUNSTATS results are used by the DB2 optimizer to determine optimal access plans. In 99.999 percent of all cases this is not a problem. However, there are some objects (tablespaces / indices) for which a RUNSTAT...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Support DB2 LUW Specific Functions that are Missing in DB2 z/OS

State of California Office of Systems Integration (OSI) uses Db2 LUW in AIX environment, to support Child Welfare Reporting Caseworkers. We are working on a proof of concept to demonstrate transitioning of reporting workloads from Db2 LUW to IDAA ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration