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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    IFCID 402 support for more than 50 unique user profiles like IFCID 365, 411 and 412

    The critical issue is that IFCID 402 uniquely lacks the continuation flag essential for identifying continuation records within a single interval, a feature consistently present in other DDF-related IFCIDs (365, 411, 412). This omission significan...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Allow Encrypted Connection for IBM Debug Tool and Unified Debugger

    Reviewing the connection with the Db2 Unified debugger, it was determined it was not using an encrypted port. All tools (mainframe or otherwise) should support full encryption over ATL-TLS.
    almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Joining a temporal table with an archive-enabled table

    In DB2 z/OS V11.1, we getting a -20555 SQLCODE when trying to join a temporal table with an archive-enabled table. We were surprised to see it didn't work. The manual talks about those tables being “mutually exclusive”, which to me would mean ...
    about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

    real append processing on insert for LOB when specifying append

    Our customers send us many millions of documents every day, which we have to save in the form of LOBs very quickly and without interruption in DB2. For this we use the APPEND option to be able to process the inserts as quickly as possible. Unfortu...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Add SCOPE(GROUP) to the Start/Stop Profile command

    In our shop we have many Db2 data sharing members. If we need to stop and then start our profile tables we need to do so in many places. Adding the SCOPE(GROUP) to the both the start and the stop command would reduce the number of places and comma...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Allow column masking on system temporal tables

    We have a few System Temporal tables that have sensitive data. We need to be able to create column masks on those columns. Currently we get a SQL20474N with Reason Code 17 when we try to run a CREATE MASK on system temporal tables.
    almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Request to add AArch64/ARM64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release.

    Request to add ARM/AArch64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release. Required for power-efficiency and cost reduction. Required to provided by EOY 2024 to Q12025. Output from /proc/cpuinfo for processor info: For processor 0 to 128 p...
    over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

    Enhance message 00F30034 with plan name

    Enhancement of message 00F30034 with plan name in question. The message text today is"The authorization ID associated with this connection is not authorized to use the specified plan name or the specified plan name does not exist." Please add a va...
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

    Add SCOPE(GROUP) for -DIS STATS(INDEXTRAVERSECOUNT)

    Our shop has 13 LPARs for our Production environment & while trying to figure out the best way to combined all the different FTB FACTOR values for the individual IXs it was mentioned maybe a future feature of something along the lines of -DIS ...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Add a builtin table function that splits a character string

    Db2 12 adds the useful LISTAGG function that aggregates a set of string values into a single string.It would be good to have an inverse: a table function SPLIT that takes a string and a separator, and returns a table of string values.The signature...
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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