IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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    Support INLINE xml column

    Asking for INLINE LENGTH for XML column like LOB column. It will make more efficient the work for short XML's.
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Ability to work with page size other than 16K for xml tablespace

    Today, xml table space must work with page size of 16K. We are asking the ability for all pagesizes, especially 32k to make the i/o more efficient.
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Support partition level for PENDING DEFINITION CHANGES after altering to PAGENUM RELATIVE

    When altering a table/table space and the state is PENDING DEFINITION CHANGES, in the most of the times we have to reorg the entire object. It take a lot of time and a lot of disk space for the shadow. Of course we do it with SORTDATA NO RECLUSTER...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Use permanent database for DSNTRVFY rather than implicit database

    Each time we run DSNTIJRV, the DSNTRVFY program creates the DSNTRVFY.VALIDATION_TABLE in an implicitly-created database, which the process then leaves hanging around with no objects in it. Both empty databases and implicitly-created databases viol...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Create zparm item to change "VOLATILE" table default for implicit create table

    Due to our huge DW/Analytics environment in DB2 z we have a lot of tables created by users without details about tablespace and database, so these tables are created with default values of DB2. However, the NOT VOLATILE is default value and can no...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Alter Index add column

    When altering index adding columns ' the index status change to rebuild pendig ' need to put in in change pending and let appliction use this index until rebuild or reorg the index , and then rebind packeges
    almost 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Introduce or Change Reorg for managing commits when generating Identity column values during the Reorg

    When an identity column is added to an already existing and populated table, the table is put into a Reorg Pending status and thus unavailable to the applications. When the Reorg is run to resolve the status it generates the identity column values...
    about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

    Reduce latch content when we use nested SPs/UDFs

    We faced a big problem with latch contention in our environment due to nested SPs and UDF in 3 levels, so it did not make sense for us, because of that we opened the IBM case to treat this issue.
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Enable RENAME TABLE on tables with triggers

    SAP is working on enable the Zero Downtime solution (ZDO), which uses RENAME TABLE to switch between old and new table definitions, also for SAP systems that use a sidecar (SAP SLT - System Landscape Transformation). For SLT, SAP defines triggers ...
    almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Set DB2 ZPARMs TSQTY and IXQTY to -1

    Please would it be possible to set the DB2 for z/OS ZPARMs, TSQTY and IXQTY, to -1? Virtually all of our tablespaces and indexspaces are created with a PRIQTY and SECQTY of -1. It would be really useful to set the default values for TSQTY and IXQ...
    over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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