IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    Add Configurable Recall-to-Forward Delay for Multi-Cluster Scheduling

    In a Multi-Cluster environment, once a job is forwarded to a remote cluster, it effectively remains there until it is scheduled or completed. As a result, the submission cluster may later have available resources that the job is unable to utilize....
    3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release

    Improve handling of long running lmstat

    Currently, the LM_STAT_TIMEOUT parameter handling both lmstat connection time out (via lmstat -t < LM_STAT_TIMEOUT > and the length of time blcollect allows lmstat to run before termination. There should be two parameters to configure: 1) lm...
    about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Future consideration

    GROUP BY Sort Improvement

    The current GROUP BY ordering processing requires huge workfile for large records, data is read once for ordering and again for grouping purpose. To improve performance, this processing could be done in SORT where it collapses records earlier and ...
    16 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Allow multiple packages with copy collection

    We have a collection for our DB2 Connect packages bound that we would like to be able to copy without having to code one copy per package. Change the copy command to allow all packages in a collection to be included in one command. Example COPY PA...
    3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Recording full utility statements in Utility History tables (LOB support)

    Utility History tables introduced in Db2 13 currently lack the full text of executed statements, which increases the complexity of troubleshooting and auditing processes. It is requested that the product be enhanced to record the entire utility st...
    3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    LOAD could end with RC=08 when no columns are detailed and lose data after VARCHARs

    When a table has a column with varying length (VARCHAR, VARBINARY) and other columns after it, LOAD needs the column description in SYSIN to be loaded correctly, and ends with RC=00 (or RC=04 if remains CopyPend state). But if you forget to explic...
    7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Enable discard reorganizations on catalog history tables.

    Enabling historization for certain catalog tables can result in very large tables that can be difficult to purge, particularly if they are in LOCKSIZE ROW and without LOCK ESCALATION, as is the case, for example, with the SYSIBM.SYSTABSPACESTATS_H...
    11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration
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    Resolve a restriction that CACHE DYN STABILITY function can not use with CONCENTRATE WITH LITERALS option.

    Customer environment Db2 V12　<- DRDA -> Db2connect/JDBC(IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ type 2) Server side.(JDBC Type2 is used) Windows server: - WebSphere BASE 9.0.0　（Windows2016） - Db2client / IBM Data Server Runtime Client V11.1...
    over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

    First-Available Reservation Mode: reserve every alternative resource combination for the head-of-queue job and dispatch on whichever frees first

    Summary Add a scheduling/reservation mode in which the top-priority pending job (thenext job scheduled to run) reserves resources across ALL of its alternativeresource combinations simultaneously, rather than committing its reservationto a single ...
    2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Future consideration

    Complete PROFILE support for SQL tuning ZPARMS

    While modelling a production system it was noticed that the PROFILE support is not 100% up to date and compatible with the actual ZPARMs that the Db2 Optimizer uses. I opened a case TS019778440 and they said "Yes, it is missing, please open an AHA...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

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