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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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day of the week for time based resource plan

As our workload requirement is vastly different between weekday and weekend. it will be great if Symphony supports different time based resource plan according to the day of the week. even better if IBM could expose rest API for us to alter resour...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Functionality already exists

Externalize high water marker for EDM pool in Db2 trace on Db2 V12

This stat is useful and required to tune EDM pool appropriately. This would be useful for DB2 systems programmer and DB2 Performance Teams. We had a case opened and the decision is to externalize this feature only with v13. It would be great to ha...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Rebuild Index Utility - early checking for Read-Only-Tablespaces requested

Please check Restrictions earlier and stop starting and running Utilitys that cannot be finished.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Is a defect

message to indicate a table lock escalation is being attempted

To indicate a table lock escalation is being attempted, either through DSNI031I or via a new message.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

suspend and resume sessions under workload API

Currently we can only do with with either command line tool or admin API. Can we add this to all language specific workload APIs We have receive feedbacks from client this will be a good to have feature directly from the C#, C++ and Java API.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Functionality already exists

Add wildcard support to all system profile tables filtering criteria categories

Using system profile tables to control workloads is a very useful feature and hence it is more and more used.During our tests, we found out that we have the need to use wildcards within the DSN_PROFILE_TABLE filtering categories of a PROFILEID. In...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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

Apply security restriction in Db2 table only via database connector tools (but not from database objects)

There are few use cases where Db2 table access must be restricted only from DB connector tools(eg; SPUFI, QMF or DSE in IDz or any other DB visualizer) but not from the database object itself. To explain further, we do have home grown tools(x1) us...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Add zIIP normalization coefficient to accounting record.

CPU time may show up in reports as being greater than wall clock time if the thread ran mainly on a zIIP, due to normalization of CPU values. These values can only be "un-normalized" if the normalization factor at the time the accounting record wa...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 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