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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    Support of MVS SMF logstream for DB2 utility : DSN1SMFP

    At this time IBM recommend to migrate SMF dataset to logstream to have better performances and usuability. We have done that but when we try to use DSN1SMFP DB2 utility to read DB2 SMF records we have and abend : IEC141I 013-A8 We think this tools...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    new fixcat categories in maintenance stream

    We would like to have new fixcat categories for security and performance. Currently this is a manual process that is labor intensive and in some cases time prohibitive. New security policies require that we identify fixes that are security or perf...
    almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Restart Time of DB2 should not be dependent on SCA size

    During restart of DB2, the time difference between DSNR003I and DSNR004I is a function of the SCA size. Case TS009645595 was opened and has all the details. But in summary: this large time differenece of 30 seconds (in our case) is a function of t...
    over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Copytocopy utility runs in parallel

    BdB does a flashcopy from one tablespace (one copy for each partition), and they need to do a COPYTOCOPY. Today we use another DB2 utility vendor and it has an option to do parallel copies.We tried to run IBM DB2 Utility, but we didn't find an par...
    almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

    Better filter factors - use RI for this

    The Db2/LUW optimizer has some algorithms that affect the optimization of queries on that platform based on the fact that RI is involved. But, Db2 for Z can calculate very incorrect filter factors that can be much more correct if Db2 enforced RI w...
    about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    produce warning message when local bufferpool reaches DM Threshold

    Produce an alert message when local bufferpool reaches DM threshold.
    about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Reorg - SORTDATA NO - write to shadow instead of SYSREC and then the shadow

    Reorg - SORTDATA NO - write to shadow instead of SYSREC and then the shadow
    over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Lock Escalation Action zParm for Pre-Escalation

    A new zParm that would enable feature in DB2 to: 1) detect request for LOCK ESCALATION2) lookup thread characteristics/criteria in control 'table'3) take action (coded in 'table') based on entry in control 'table', OR take a default action (i.e. d...
    about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    DSNTEP2 OUTPUT LENGTH

    I would have a DSNTEP2 version with the output lenth 4096 bytes. Unfortunately I don't have the PLI compiler. Can you compile a DSNTEP2 version with the output legth 4096 and send me the load module so I can link edit an bind it . Many many thanks...
    over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

    Enhance package dependency quiescing/locking behavior of EXCHANGE

    Enhance package dependency quiescing/locking behavior of EXCHANGE, so it will be possible to exchange base- and clone-table in parallel to (many) transactions reading one of these tables in parallel .
    almost 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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