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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    Section actuals for BLU

    Collecting section actuals and compare it with the SQL compiler estimates using the db2caem tool is quite handy to find cardinality mis-estimates in huge plans.
    over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Grant 'create, drop and alter a tablespace' authority to specific user

    The Sysctl group can create, drop and alter a tablespace in db2 and also have all authorities of SYSMAINT and SYSMON. Customer just want to give tablespace control authority to specific user.
    over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Change stored procedure SYSPROC.NNSTAT to use method 2 for ODBC based nicknames

    The SYSPROC.NNSTAT stored procedure uses method 1 for automatic, asynchronous statistics collection for ODBC based nicknames.This results in lack of statistics being collected, leading the optimizer to derive at inefficient access plans.
    over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Future consideration

    Remote DB2 connections via Universal Diver T4 not well balanced.

    Sysplex workload balancing does not guarantee that executions are distributed among the available systems. It depends on the capacity of the systems (WLM choose systems with more CPs/ZIIPs), performance index of enclaves, and DB2 system health (fr...
    almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

    watsonx Code assistant for Z COBOL to PYTHON transformation

    currently watsonx Code assistant for Z only produces JAVA output. The number of PYTHON programmers around the world far exceeds those of JAVA and is exponentially increasing each year. There are billions of lines of COBOL still requiring maintenan...
    about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

    XML type support in Db2 stored procedure debugger

    XML data type is not supported in Db2 stored procedure debugger in Data Studio or Visual Studio add-in. We are developing our support for SEPA and ISO 20022 projects using Db2 z/OS native stored procedures. They both heavily depend on XML. It woul...
    almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

    (Automatic) Test generation from COBOL code

    e.g. generation of test cases out of COBOL code for full reliability
    almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Needs more information

    Explainability of generated Java code

    it's crucial to understand the rationale behind the generated Java code including but not restricting to the reference of Cobol code lines
    almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Needs more information

    Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables)

    Coherence in the transformation (re-use of same code / tables) - code assistant should have a knowledge of already translated parts and should be able to reuse them when re-occuring
    almost 3 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

    Page-level recovery request.

    DB2 is not able to repair a single bad page, i.e. to perform a page-level recovery.This causes a downtime because the only solution is the execution of the OFFLINE procedures, like RESTORE/RECOVER/db2dart.
    about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

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