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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 support for GRANT ROLE to AUTHID.

In DB2 for z/OS I am allowed to CREATE ROLE, GRANT priviledges to ROLE but I can't GRANT that role to a USERID. Seems something is broke to me. What are ROLES good for if I can't assign a user or group of users to that role.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Clarify message DSNX905I to distinguish type of DB2 Procedure or Function abend

Allow for automation of rules to identify if a START PROCEDURE or START FUNCTION should be issued to respond to the outage.
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

allow CREATE TABLE LIKE another table and propagate table partition limits

Today, it is possible to create a PBG tablespace and then use CREATE TABLE like another table and the new table is in the new ts. CREATE TABLESPACE ZPOLCL IN DDB01P SEGSIZE 64; CREATE TABLE TPOLCL LIKE DBCCLP1.TPOL IN DDB01P.ZPOLCL; If the source...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

New DSNACCOX tablespace reorg threshold

Stored procedure DSNACCOX has thresholds for tablespace unclustered inserts (RRTUnclustInsPct) and page splits from updates (RRTIndRefLimit). These both cause fragmentation. However, there is no threshold for the sum of these two, even though many...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add an option to run a failed query again

After running a set of SQL statements in one single go, the SQL Results view shows a twistie with the success or failure status of each individual statement, and of the statement group as a whole. Quite often -- especially when running DDL -- I ha...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

same SQL functionality fo...

The customers of IBMs DB2 products (LUW and z/OS) expect that the existing differnences between the SQL functionalities are getting less from DB2 version to DB2 version. This - 85095,077,724 - is an example for a new functionality in DB2 LUW with ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Remove MEMBER keyword from BIND PLAN command

It is to prevent creation of such obsolete plans - they immediately get rebound generating default collections so why allowing it in the first place? In some environments implementing strict security is not possible so preventing some actions may...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

PIVOT/UNPIVOT functions in DB2 for z/OS

Currently, the DB2 for z/OS SQL does not support any functions for PIVOTING / UNPIVOTING data. This results in extremely complex SQL whenever a matrxi/cross tab report is required. Such reports are very common in open systems databases.
almost 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Revise DSNREXX to allocate specific DB2 load libaries

Allow DSNREXX to have an option that allows allocation of various DB2 load libraties from the init or add call
almost 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Update statistics profile from SYSIBM.SYSFEEDBACK by demand.

We are running under DB2 v12 level 501 Data Sharing 17-way and he is using statistics feedback with profile, but since it is an autonomic process for all objects there are some package access path becoming worst after run utilities with RUNSTATS U...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration