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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    Add catalog information about how a compression dictionary was created (INSERT, LOAD, REORG)

    Db2 is able to create a compression dictionary by INSERT, LOAD and REORG. If INSERT and LOAD are responsible, than the first x rows were not compressed (Db2 reads them to build a proper dictionary). If REORG is responsible for creating a compressi...
    over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Allow DSMAX to be set by Db2 command

    Our installation has repeatedly had trouble with Db2 shutting down in a timely fashion for IPLs. We have taken dumps and sent them to IBM and IBM has stated repeatedly that the delay in shutdown involves dataset close. We set DSMAX very high and h...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    From Symphony GUI should be able to export the data of all the hosts (Manager/SSM/Compute).

    From Symphony GUI should be able to export the data of all the hosts (Manager/SSM/Compute). We are requesting you please provide us the export functionality, so we can export all the data from GUI to the excel spreadsheet. As present there is no s...
    over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 4 Future consideration

    Add a message to report orphan threads in DB2

    Due to TCPIP abend, there are several orphan threads in DB2 causing contention issues on resources. There is no message to report these orphan threads. Having a report helps us to avoid contention issues sooner by cancelling the underlying orphan ...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Enhance the TO_DATE scalar function for source data in week dependant format data

    With the TO_CHAR scalar function i can convert a "normal" date format to a week dependant format.e.g. select to_char('30.03.2017', 'IYYY.IW.ID') from sysibm.sysdummy1 delivers 2017.13.4; fourth isoday (thursday) in week 13 of year 2017. The invers...
    almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Rebuild should materialize pending changes on indexes

    Recently we had big problems with index splits. Therefore we altered the bufferpool from 4K-pages to 8K-pages and run a rebuild. But we had to ran a reorg on the whole tablespace, which has about 1 billion rows and a few indexes, which we wanted t...
    almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Allow system administrators to specify bufferpool sizes in "M" or "G", rather than pages.

    With big memory and bufferpools measured in gigabytes, sizing pools by number of pages becomes tedious and error-prone. A 1GB pool requires one to specify -ALT BPOOL(BPx) VPSIZE(262144). A 5GB pool would be VPSIZE(1310720). Most users use "round" ...
    over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 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

    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

    RUNSTATS Partition Pageset Processing

    DB2 RUNSTATS process opens all pagesets for all partitions and all indexes up front and keeps them open during the life of the utility.Could there be changes made so RUNSTATS utility open pagesets and releases pagesets when needed?
    almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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