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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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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

Enable 'Temporal' for DB2 catalog object tables granular and optional

V12R1M500 enables to optionally activate/deactivate 'Temporal RTS tables'. Please provide to optionally and granular activate/deactivate 'Temporal catalog objects tables' as e.g. SYSTABLES, SYSVIEWS, SYSCOLUMNS, ... We know that temporal for catal...
over 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

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

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

Make Auto-start of PROFILE More Robust

We have experienced PROFILE auto-start failure when the DB2 Recovery process was not complete. Hopefully, a change is made to the DB2 product to make auto-start succeed even in cases like that.
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reduce DSNB555I messages

Hi, this idea is related case TS020701291 - Excessive number of DSNB555I messages. We are working for improve performance on DB2 applications and a important point is BufferPools with AUTOSIZE(Y) and PGFIX(Y), but we found that every WLM action se...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 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

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

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