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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    Separate workfile allocation into different latches

    Currently, the WACT latch governs all workfile allocation usage. When the customer ran workload failover testing, the WACT latch proved to be a bottleneck. Root cause analysis determined that the bottleneck came from the fact that multiple types o...
    about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Authorization for ALTER Commands at schema level

    Our DBA team receives countless requests to reset sequence values for our developers. This is a tedious task that should be a self-service task for our developers. We need some mechanism to allow our developers the ability to alter these sequences...
    about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Masking function with GRANT per column

    Column masking has been great help in managing sensitive data and complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).But today’s solution to know if a user has access to data without masking is to create a Mask using a CASE with SESSION_...
    about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Allow BIND EXPLAIN(ONLY) use virtual indexes

    It would be very helpful if Db2 allowed (optionally) to use virtual indexes when BIND with EXPLAIN(ONLY) is performed. This can be an additional BIND parameter on whether or not use virtual indexes. This option will eliminate/reduce a need in thir...
    over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

    PIECESIZE-limitation for indexes

    MR121710128 GGDB210014
    almost 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Need a Db2 option to return control (and not wait) if the maximum number of threads is already reached

    We've seen cases in z/OS DFSMS OAM where the application invoking OAM can use up the available Db2 connections/threads so when OAM goes to process their request, there are no longer any threads available resulting in a deadly embrace. Typically th...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Allow for LISTDEF Processing and Template when specifying TOCOPY on a RECOVER

    Details: 1) Site has multiple tablespaces that use a consistent naming scheme for image copies.2) Manual does not mention use of "TOCOPY" in the "list-options-spec" section of the "RECOVER" page.3) Receive following error when attempting to use a ...
    almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    PHASE II : Support for python ibm_db driver on z/OS using z ODBC driver

    The requirement is to offer connectivity to Db2 on z/OS natively by using the z/OS ODBC driver. The python driver has been enhanced to successfully compile on the z/OS platform, and basic validation and regression suite validation has been done. W...
    about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Moving extra area for IRLM latch information provided by PI93817 from QTXA to a new section.

    This is related to PMR 73570,611,760. Applying a PTF for PI93817, new 124 bytes fields for IRLM latch contention counters are added to IFCID QTXA section, which is shared between statistics and accounting trace. However, those new fields are used ...
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Auditing administrative authorities in DB2 zOS with RACF-Exit DSNX$XAC

    DB2 IFCID361 should be written when an administrative authority is used - Independent of the security exit used. When using the full RACF-Exit DSNX$XAC DB2 IFCID361 is not written/supressed , as RACF grants the access -- but does not give back to ...
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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