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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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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:


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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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Using the TEST function, Need to Filter by Index Name or Table Name

Looking to convert an NPI to DPSI. Need a way to compare access paths of all SQLs that are currently using the NPI to What-if the NPI was not there (aka Virtual Index Delete). The TEST function (Dynamic Explain) currently does not allow filtering ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Provide full system symbol support in yaml files and any 'captured' component locations

For some of the yaml file uses, this would aid in deployment and backout where if we could put a system symbol in the 'instance' file names (those created outside SMP/E) so that when we apply a PTF we update the symbol, UMS/ADF (whichever) would t...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

Provide for systems symbols in the various field (especially DNS names) on the subsytem registration panel/process

We currently perform monthly BCP testing. in these test, the host name is prepended with information to contact these 'copies'. For everything else this is done by using a system symbol that is normally blank, but in the test environment has a val...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

RTS stats are not collected, SYSTABLESPACESTATS and SYSINDEXSPACESTATS

RTS statistics should be part of Collect and Apply.
over 5 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Make ROWSET cursors available on the Db2 Server and Client.

assistance with multirow fetch A single FETCH statement can be used to fetch several rows with the Db2 Precompiler and embedded Runtime. Arrays can be given as host variables (and as their indicators) in Db2 ESQL, and when ESQL executes the FETCH ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add Explain Support for Arrays

Add support to allow the explain of queries which use Arrays. Queries in NSPs can arrays, and if there is a need to tune a query which uses one, the only way to do it is to iteratively drop and recreate the NSP. This significantly slows down the l...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Future consideration