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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    High CPU utilisation in CF structure xxxx_SCA

    We have noticed that the structure DB2P_SCA in production the reason for high CPU consumption in the Coupling Facility is. Our reporting proofs this behaviour. We opened a case and did a deeper dive with IBM’s experts into. At the end we can say t...
    almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Create an API for IFI reads (306) so Log-Reading Software does NOT need to be APF-Authorized

    Like a lot of shops, we replicate a lot of our Enterprise data from our programmatic Db2 for z/OS environment to other Db2s and other off-platform DBMSes for MI and analytics, and for high availability. IIDR now provides the ability to do this via...
    about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Better info -904 Dynamic SQL

    In Case TS018158208 we described Our clients gets due a exchange: EXCHANGE DATA BETWEEN TABLE <owner>.<tablename> AND <owner>.<tablename-CLONE>; SQLERROR ON EXCHANGE COMMAND, EXECUTE FUNCTION RESULT OF SQL STATEMENT: DSNT40...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    externalize stop command failure

    objects remain in STOPP when stop fails with no indication that it failed. a manual start followed by a manual stop is required to cause the object to proceed to a stop state. it's unfortunate, that issuing a start is required since that will allo...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Allow the DECLARE-part of a cursor in EXPLAIN

    Over the years options you can use in a cursor were enhanced more and more, but you still can only explain the SELECT-clause of the cursor. But sometimes access path are considerably different, if you use a rowset cursor.
    about 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    zIIP Eligible Q-APPLY

    Currently the SQL Queries in QREP Apply are CPU-intensive. The CPU cost of those queries cost more than our top 5 application programs combined. We recommend to make Q APPLY Queries zIIP eligible to reduce the CPU cost for QREP APPLY.
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Instrument workfile high-watermarks in ACCTG

    Instrument IFCID 0003 and IFCID 0148 counter(s) to show the maximum amount of Workfile used by a thread (4K blocks total, or separate by tables/indexes, or separate by 4K/32K Workfiles -- implementation choice.) It is difficult to manage Workfile ...
    over 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Register all dependencies in SYSPACKDEP

    Today SYSPACKDEP records the dependencies of packages - but not dependencies related to RI. That means that a user or a tool needs to run additional queries to understand all dependencies to e.g. answer the question: which packages do I need to RE...
    almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    DSNADSM for DB2 V11 does not gather information about SYSIBM.SYSSTATFEEDBACK

    DSNADSM for DB2 V11 does not gather information about SYSIBM.SYSSTATFEEDBACK – This might lead to incomplete Runstats recommandations when reporting an access path problems via an SQL, as the DSN_STAT_FEEDBACK from the explain tables might not c...
    almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Enhance TRANSLATE working on character basis

    The current TRANSLATE function is working on Byte Basis which is OK for EBCDIC but not for Unicode Data. Please provide a similar function as SUBSTRING which is working on character basis regardless of Underlying codepage! PMR23932,060,618
    over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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