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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    EXPLAIN PACKAGE - Populate all EXPLAIN tables

    EXPLAIN PACKAGE only populates the PLAN_TABLE It should allow for the population of explain tables
    over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    COPY UTILITY enhancement

    Actually:Incremental image copies are not allowed when:- No full image copies exist for the table space or data set that is being copied-After a successful LOAD or REORG operation, unless an inline copy was made during the LOAD or REORG job.Add a ...
    almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Externalise the table name from the "as locator" clause in a create external procedure statement.

    This is required to reverse engineer DDL for external stored procedures
    over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Add SHADOW for REBUILD INDEX SHRLVE CHANGE

    Differences between REBUILD INDEX SHRLEVEL CHANGE and REFERENCE. Reference PMR:13307,124,672
    about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Provide value for MAXTEMPS parm in percentage of total dasd space and create 2 separated options for sort and dgtt workfiles

    The introduction of new parameter MAXTEMPS, to avoid the situation where one task monopolize all temporary tablespaces space, with only an absolute space value as an option leaks flexibility. 1) We need to have two parameters, one for sort areas a...
    over 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    System Assessment-Hide/Unhide metrics features based on user role

    Currently, each user is able to Hide/Unhide Metrics under the Db2zAI dashboard for their own view. It would be very helpful if the Db2 AI administrator could choose which metrics would be available to show. For example, there are metrics that we o...
    over 3 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Support DECFLOAT in COBOL

    DECFLOAT was introduced in DB2 9 and has just recently been enhanced to be usable in indexes. However the datatype is not supported in COBOL and FORTRAN and only "tolerated" in REXX (as a DOUBLE and then without NAN, SNAN or INFINITY). As a mainfr...
    over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Request to convert classic partitioned to UTS PBR by partition

    Would like to see if it could be considered to perform an alter classic partitioned tablespace and then reorg by partition instead of the entire tablespace. While I agree it may be more housekeeping, some of the tablespaces we eventually will need...
    almost 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Db2 zOS: Provide support for period-clause FOR PORTION OF BUSINESS_TIME for update operation within MERGE statement

    Idea is to extend functionality of MERGE statement in Db2 z/OS by providing support for the period clause FOR PORTION OF BUSINESS_TIME for an update operation (and delete operation) within the MERGE statement. The statement would look like this: ...
    over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Add new STATUS codes to SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE to reflect different states of the tablespace

    For the person who wants to identify the tablespaces that are in advisory reorg-pending status to collectively identify those tables and include them collectively in a reorganization job.
    over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

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