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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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Allow ALTER TABLE xxx COLUMN yyy SET NOT NULL

The ability to change nearly everything about a column is really cool in Db2. Sadly, the one thing that you cannot easily change is the NULLability of any given column. This is definitely a requirement all over the place and currently can only be ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve Automatic Index Cleanup for Large or Long-Running Delete Workloads

In some workloads involving large or long-running delete operations, we have observed that automatic index cleanup may not reclaim a significant portion of eligible pseudo-deleted index entries after the delete transaction completes. As a result, ...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

EXPLAIN-only mode without persistent storage in PLAN_TABLEs

Executing EXPLAIN results in the accumulation of records in PLAN_TABLEs, requiring frequent and burdensome cleanup operations. To improve administrative efficiency, we request an "EXPLAIN-only" mode for BIND and REBIND commands that outputs access...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Introduction of a new isolation level for concurrent Point-in-Time SELECT

The inability to perform PIT SELECT queries without compromising concurrency is a significant barrier for migrating workloads from RDBMS platforms that utilize MVCC. This limitation forces developers to implement complex workarounds for Db2’s lock...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Remove Indexspace FlashCopy Saves Only

We do the following: COPY all Tablespaces and Indexspaces via Dataset Level FlashCopy twice a week. The Tablespaces are saved afterwards by COPYTOCOPY to VTS. and retained 40 days. For the Indexspaces we do not want to do COPYTOCOPY, due to saving...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

CSV and Excel compatible export and intelligent analysis function for Db2zAI

Db2zAI DCC provide training recommendations for distributed connection and thread control. However, we have to manually copy these numbers in to an excel so we can compare, review, analyze, approve and track the activities. The manual process is t...
4 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

Support REORG for DEFINE NO

I have heard, in various IBM presentations (Haakon at IDUG Valencia, John Lyle at CCDB2) talking about Db2 Vnext, the statement "no migration to vnext if you have 6 byte RBA/LRSN or non-UTS tablespaces". This if fine unless you happen to have old ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Functionality already exists

Validation of DB2 pre-requisites for DB2 AI for z/OS maintenance

When a DB2 AI for z/OS APAR requires APAR from DB2/zOS as pre-requisites, it is desirable to include in the DB2zAI hold data a job to verify if the DB2/zOS pre-requisites have been installed. Otherwise the DB2zAI software upgrade could be complete...
10 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

DCLGEN to Generate Cobol structures for Unicode Data

DCLGEN currently generates Cobol structures assuming all data in EBCDIC - i.e. it generates PIC X for character data. The majority of new tables are now created as Unicode and so the option to have DCLGEN generate Cobol structure with PIC N or PIC...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

REBIND allocated plan

Before going to Db2 13 we have to rebind some plans that were last bound in Db2 10. We have also previously got the recommendation to rebind all plans when we have migrated to a new Db2 version. We have a problem with plans that are always allocat...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration