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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    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

    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

    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

    Add global radio buttons under "edit profile--> users(tab)->Username --> RTM settings (tab) --> adjust the option in the "users show users column"

    Under "head and shoulders->edit profile--> users(tab)->Username --> RTM settings (tab)" there are multiple sections each with its own togglable options. If an admin wants to toggle all or some of these sections for all users then they ...
    28 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Future consideration

    Investigation Workspace and Cross-Insight Comparison for IBM SQL Data Insights Pro

    I propose adding an Investigation Workspace and Cross-Insight Comparison capability to IBM SQL Data Insights Pro to help organizations manage complex AI-powered data investigations more efficiently and systematically. This enhancement would provid...
    28 days ago in IBM SQL Data Insights Pro 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

    Need to disable LWS File endpoint

    Dear Team,we are currently introducing the new LSF Web Services (LWS) in our LSF environment. Due to the overall concept how the environment shall be used, we would like to prevent users from transfering files via the File-Endpoint of the LWS-API....
    about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0

    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

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