IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


ADD A NEW IDEA

Db2 for z/OS

Showing 980

Performance improvement for sync i/o

A track that is not fully formatted is not eligible for sync i/o (zHyperLink). With the existing code, DB2 sends sync i/o request to all tracks, even ones that are not fully formatted. These i/o get rejected and retried as transport mode. I'd like...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add another counter to indicate that access was allowed due to install SYSADM authority rather than modifying the existing PKG-AUTH UNSUCC-CACHE counter behavior

If Installation SYSADM is used for EXECUTE authority on a package, the entry is not cached in the CACHEPAC area. However, the PKG-AUTH UNSUCC-CACHE count will be incremented even though the Installation SYSADM ID is not being cached in the CACHEPA...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Alter Index add column

When altering index adding columns ' the index status change to rebuild pendig ' need to put in in change pending and let appliction use this index until rebuild or reorg the index , and then rebind packeges
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

IBM Unload to support parallelism for LOB Tablespaces

We are trying to unload large LOB tablespaces in a performant manner. Please see PMR 76429 999 866 in relation to this. IBM Unload currently issues misleading messages saying parallelism will be invoked. However this is not the case and the utilit...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow the alteration to another bufferpool (with the same page size) for a specific partition.

When deciding on which bufferpool to place a tablespace in, I have found that different partitions have different requirements. when the "hotspot" of a table (that would benefit by being in a larger bufferpool) is at the end, putting the last part...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Secure DB2 Load privilege at table level

Currently the db2 load privilege is secured only at the database level. I'd like to be able to secure the load privilege at the table or tablespace level.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Runstats when using profiles

RUNSTATS enhancement - an execution of RUNSTATS with REPORT YES would provide the actual and complete information in the PROFILE_TEXT column of the SYSIBM.SYSTABLES_PROFILES row for the table of interest without executing the stats. Also, when act...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Full length of timestamp not seen in data studio

We are not able to see the full lenght of a timestamp when running a sql select agains a db2 table using data studio.DS is only showing 29 characters. the total lenght of the field is 32 characters. Column is declared timestamp 13 in DB2. I can re...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

EXPLAIN Authority - Include Explain of Dynamic Stmt Cache

Include Explain of Dynamic Statement Cache with the EXPLAIN authority or create a new authority that has EXPLAIN plus EXPLAIN STMTCACHE but not all the authority of SQLADM (ie update of DB2 Catalog Tables)
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DSNRXXXX tables userID case sensitive problem

Hello,This enhancement request is referenced to PMR 17878,001,862 . Please review PMR 17878,001,862 . We are using db2 10 for z/OS and external security -RACF- on this system . DB2 user's distributed connection type is JDBC / ODBC. They reach db2 ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.