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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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Reorg index should update Real Time Statistics table SYSINDEXSPACESTATS

In case opened to IBM support, I found out that RTS table SYSINDEXSPACESTATS is not updated after reorg index. We have automated reorg of tablespaces and indexes through IBM DB2 Automation Tool using conditions for reorganization from RTS tables S...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Support more than 14,500 archive log data sets in Db2 to achieve archiving and recovery requirements

Busy Db2 systems archive logs frequently due to log data set size limits. Additionally, cyber resiliency RPO requirements force frequent log switches based on a time interval (e.g., switch every 5 minutes). Both leads to more frequent log archivin...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Eliminate requirement to stop all members in the DSG to delete a member

We run a 24x7 shop. The requirement to delete a member include stopping all members in the group: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/13.0.0?topic=members-destroying-data-sharing This requires an outage and should not. In V13, there are now ne...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Deactivation of ownership based authorization checking

Currently during the authorization check in DB2 there is a mixture of possible rules giving access to operation/resource one of which is the ownership check. In principle, this is a disturbing part of authorization check from the security administ...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

There should be a table like SYSUTILITIES that contains Db2 Commands that have been issued

There should be a table like SYSUTILITIES , say SYSCOMMANDS, that contains Db2 Commands that have been issued, including the full text of the Db2 command that was issued.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 16 Planned for future release

SQL function LAG (and other passthrough OLAP functions) – implement natively Db2 Z !

SQL function LAG (and other passthrough OLAP functions) – implement natively Db2 Z ! Db2 Z provides some OLAP functions that are only available as passthrough functions that are only available via an “accelerator” https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-f...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Under review

eliminate windows Visual C++ 12 (VS 2013) dependencies for soam

soam component is still built on top VC run time 120 even in the latest version. this is now being flagged as tech debit and vulnerability from our internal scanning and we need to figure out a way to resolve it.
23 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Make SYSIBM.DSNSERVICE table a catalog table

The usage of REST service is growing by the day and becoming an integral part of the application requirements and Db2 capability to service workloads. the REST services are also making an impact to the various automation possibilities in the user ...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Reverse engineer ZPARM to ASM format like in DSNTIJUZ

Very often the source code of any given ZPARM for a Db2 for z/OS subsystem "disappears". Be it holiday, be it by accident, be it CANCEL after submit... Whatever the reason, the problem is the same: You have a running version of the ZPARM that does...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

In a UTS world shouldn't DSNUCH01 include DSNUM as 3rd column for this SYSCOPY's index?

In a UTS world shouldn't DSNUCH01 include DSNUM as 3rd column for the SYSCOPY's index?, since DB2 v12 all tablespaces should be defined as Universal Table Space, PBR or PBG. Segmented and Simple tablespaces are deprecated.
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration