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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    RENAME function for tablespaces

    the availability of the conversion of multi-table-tablespaces to UTS-PBG tablespaces is restricted to non-UTS tablespaces (source object). I would like to use this functionality to RENAME a tablespace (when the source is already a UTS-PBG TS) - bu...
    almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    The ability to apply the DB2 Connect Unlimited Licence directly on zOS

    It would be useful for DB2 sysprogs to be able to apply the DB2 Connect Unlimited Licence to a database natively on zOS without the need to install the runtime client and run the db2connectactivate utility.
    almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

    Full Column Match and I1 Access on SQL with Correlated Sub-Queries Containing Column Expressions and Supporting IoE

    Some queries with column expressions - DATE(A1.EFCTV_TS) <= DATE('04/05/2020') for example, and an Index on Expression to support the expression are achieving I1 access while others are not. It appears this is because of how the query is curren...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    remove limitations in workfile database which leedsto outages

    When a workfile is created Db2 increments obid, when a workfile ist dropped the obid is not released by Db2. There is a restriction of maximum 500 workfiles. When the limit has been reached, no more work files can be created, SQL code -497 is retu...
    almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

    Log offload task needs to be manually cancelled restarted after outage to tape

    We are seeing situations when tape processing is down and a DB2 request to offload logs to tape is initiated using dynamic allocation, that offload task will hang and never be satisfied until the offload task is cancelled and re-driven manually. T...
    over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

    Enable Symphony to automatically recover Master and SSM pod states even when their IP addresses change after failure recovery

    IBM Platform Symphony currently supports automatic failure recovery of the Master and SSM instances when they rejoin the cluster with the same IP address. However, in environments where Master and SSM pods are orchestrated (e.g., Kubernetes), reco...
    10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

    REBUILD INDEX utility enhancement

    Enhance the REBUILD INDEX SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility to create a shadow copy of the index, then switch it over on completion.
    over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Match Correlation ID from DIS THREAD with DIS ARCHIVE

    We had a problem with a CDC tool because it was reading/requesting Archlogs.With DIS ARCHIVE we could easily identify that it was the CDC tool. With DIS THREAD you could see that there are many different processes coming from that tool.Now you nee...
    10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Improved LATCH when index splitting

    [Current Product & Version]-Db2 12 for z/OS-IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2Performance Expert on z/OS v5.5-z/OS v2.3-WebSphere Application Server v9 for z/OS [Environment]Data sharing in three-way sysplex environment [Problem]Our customer is us...
    about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Add commit frequency to Modify Recovery utility

    If there a numerous rows in SYSCOPY to be modified out the modify job holds locks on SYSCOPY for an extended period of time and can cause timeouts for other processes and utilities that are using SYSCOPY
    over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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