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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    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

    Validate client on containers

    As discused on case TS018079953, the clients are not validated to run in containers, which is a functionality we are aldready using in our clusters. It will be needed to support this functionality in order to have support for the problems we are f...
    over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Needs more information

    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

    UDF INTERPRET should accept any CCSID

    The built-in function INTERPRET added with FL505 should also support CCSIDs other than the CCSID of the Db2. For example, it should be possible to convert data in a Db2 with CCSID 1141 to CCSID 1141, provided the source data is defined with FOR BI...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Commit sequence of stored procedure

    Change the commit sequence of stored procedures, so all URs are committed in the same order that the stored procedures ended.
    over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    To add a built in REVERSE( ) function in the SQL of DB2

    CCB want to add an build-in REVERSE( ) function in the SQL of DB2 for z/OS. There is an alternative way of using UDF, but customer worry about it's perfromance, they prefer to add an build-in REVERSE( ) function in SQL. The REVERSE function is use...
    almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Avoid impact from query sort usage on more important online transactions workload

    Nowadays usage of Sortworks by a single thread is limited by MAXTEMPS or the size of the overall available sortworks if MAXTEMPS is zero. Most time MAXTEMPS works well to protect our regular business against single queries with a lot of sort amoun...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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