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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    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

    DB2 for Z/OS message DSNB555I reformated to be extermely easy for a DB2 Sysadmin or DBA to find and use in JESMSGLG

    DSNB555I is verbose, making it dificult to process quickly. The message for DSNB555I is split across 5 lines. Being split across multiple lines that makes it difficult to process. I have to EXCLUDE ALL LINES and then do 4 FINDS to get the TS, Pool...
    3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    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

    Optional ROLLBACK and suppression of automatic COMMIT in DSNTEP2/TEP4

    The current behavior of DSNTEP2 and DSNTEP4, which forces a COMMIT upon completion, precludes strict transaction control when executed via JCL. This creates risks of unintended data finalization in multi-step batch environments. We request the pro...
    3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

    eliminate windows Visual C++ 12 (VS 2013) dependencies for soam

    soam component is still built on top VC run time 120 even in the latest version. this is now being flagged as tech debit and vulnerability from our internal scanning and we need to figure out a way to resolve it.
    about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 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

    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

    We would like a Rebind in reorg job.. We only get Reorg, Runstats

    We would like a Rebind in reorg job.. We only get Reorg, Runstats
    2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

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