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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 a command to remove a specific retained lock

Under current behavior in a DB2 Data Sharing environment, when a DB2 member crashes and is not able to restart, the application on the other members is stopped by retained locks.In our environment, for some specific applications due to the nature ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Fix timeout errors during pending alter materialization reorgs

We're using DB2 z/OS V10 and tried using pending alter for making online schema change on an SAP table to increase a PBG table's DSSIZE from 4 GB to 64 GB. When we ran the SHRLEVEL CHANGE reorg to implement the pending alter, the reorg caused SAP ...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to stop AOT and other db2 tables on IDAA

When we STOP or start for UT ,spaces of tables that are loaded to IDAA or spaces that relate to AOT's, these spaces are still available for the IDAA. We can SELECT data from the IDAA for these tables and for AOT's' we can also update them. We need...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

We need spring framework updated to latest version for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2 to address CVE-2024-38819 vulnerability

We need spring framework updated to latest version for Spectrum Symphony 7.3.2 to address CVE-2024-38819 vulnerability. IBM case #TS018324375 has been opened for this as well.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 4 Planned for future release

Allow FOR SYSTEM TIME ALL

If you have system-period temporal table you can query the table (and it's history table) with a period-specification: FOR SYSTEM TIME AS OF timestamp FOR SYSTEM TIME BETWEEN timestamp AND timestamp FOR SYSTEM TIME FROM timestamp TO timestamp ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Change DSNARNMG to have a user define task name

Currently there's a hard coded name in module DSNARNMG. That program always tries to start a task called: DB2UDSMD. That is unacceptable for some installations where they have job and task name standards. This RFE is to add a new ZPARM to allow th...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow threads which use the accelerator (IDAA) to go inactive

Today, once a distributed thread has had a query offloaded to IDAA, that thread can never go inactive again. The desired behavior change is to allow distributed threads which utilize the accelerator to follow the same rules for going inactive as a...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Decouple the VaR sample application from WEBGUI based to CLI based especially need to generate credential for both kerberos client enabled and disabled clusters.

We are looking for a way to generate the user credential for parent-child application via SYMREST API interface. Right now the sample VaR application can only work from WEBGUI and there is no CLI tool to generate the user credential in session cre...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 3 Under review

Allow WITH UR for SET assignment-statement with row-subselect

Allow The WITH isolation level clause for SET assignment-statement with row-subselect. We need to be able to select data into a global array without imposing a share (or any other) lock.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enhance Db2 FTB analytics function Db2 V12

Started last weeks activating FTB in development systems by using ZPARM DSN6SPRM.INDEX_MEMORY_CONTROL. Tried to get information using -DISPLAY STATS(INDEXMEMORYUSAGE) LIMIT(*) -DISPLAY STATS(INDEXTRAVERSECOUNT). i thought i will get deeper to it b...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration