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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    -MODIFY GBPOOL command - Allow Db2 sysadmins to manage GBP CF structures without permitting access to MVS SETXCF

    The Challenge Currently, the Data-Sharing Planning and Administration Guide states that SETXCF commands are necessary for the administration of Db2 Group Bufferpools, particularly functions such as: Re-sizing group bufferpools Rebuilding group...
    over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    improved estimation for potential use of Huffman Compression

    Requirement for more accurate estimates of DASD space savings when using Huffman Compression. Problem is that estimates produced by DSN1COMP can be significantly inaccurate i.e., as much as +/- 30%. The solution required is a new option on the REO...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Dynamically add applications to symrest.json of service SYMREST by Consumer or Cluster Admins

    CBB cluster users want manage workflow via EGO service SYMREST, however cluster admin has to manually add the application into the SYMREST config file symrest.json and bounce the service. This increases a lot of cluster admin support work. If the ...
    over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

    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

    Symphony support gcc 11.2 on Red Hat 7

    We are upgrading python wrapper application to 3.9 with gcc11.2 on Redhat 7, and C++ app with gcc11.2 as well. We are expecting IBM can provide the compatible so file as soon as possible
    over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Not under consideration

    Incorporate patch RFE SPCS-I-999 Fix ID: sym-7.3.2.2-build602311 to Symphony Fix Pack 1

    The docker controller patch for supporting API versions 1.24 - 1.44 was delivered for Symphony Fix Pack 2 (Fix ID: sym-7.3.2.2-build602311). Can you please add the same patch to Symphony Fix Pack 1? Thank you Elsa
    over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4 Not under consideration

    PIECESIZE-limitation for indexes

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

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