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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    Temporal Join Capabilities

    The table reference syntax for temporal joins needs to be expanded to include effective ways to find rows across the tables that share time affectivity.The FOR BUSINESS_TIME / FOR SYSTEM_TIME syntax does not allow for references to columns from th...
    over 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Change DSNTINST CLIST to allow temporary TSO/E EDIT datasets 'userid.editutil%' allocated on non-EVA volumes

    Currently DSNTINST clist abends when using TSO/E EDIT macro that is unable to use temp datasets on EAV volumes.
    over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    UTF8 conversion problem - EBCDIC

    Message UTF-8 => After conversion in EBCDIC EBCDIC_STR('Hi, my name is Андрей (Andrei)'); => Hi, my name is \0410\043D\0434\0440\0435\0439 (Andrei) But for the character � (UTF-8 replacement character) the function returns the value X'3F' in...
    about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

    Change Image Copy To Avoid Opening Db2 Data Sets When Making Conditional Image Copies

    Our IBM Image Copy jobs are driving 10s of thousands of Db2 data set opens while doing conditional image copies. During our daily batch cycle the vast majority of the data set opens are not needed as there was no activity for the objects stored in...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    RECOVER to A MIGRATED FLASHCOPY

    We are in DB2 V10.We recovered a tablespace to a flashcopy. The flashcopy was migrated via HSM and the recover skipped to a previous copy (not migrated). The job returned return code = 04 with the message FLASHCOPY ....... FOR TABLESPACE DBHWCOPY....
    over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    DENY Remote Connetions to DB2 if not from a permitted combination of System AuthId and Location/IPAddress with wildcarding

    Running DB2 11 NFM. We are trying to ALLOW a remote connection to DB2 on z/OS from ONLY specific combinations of User ID and IP Address via a DB2 mechanism that can be modified dynamically. Simply looking for a way to DENY a connection from remote...
    over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    refresh MQT with ur

    Up to now a REFRESH MQT with the UR-Option is not possible.
    over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Lock hashing algorithms of DB2 and XES are incompatible. Leads to excessive False Contention and high IRLM CPU for GLM xfer

    There is an anomaly between DB2 and XES hashing algorithms which means that a 4-byte DB2 (unique) lock hash value passed to XES may not be hashed to a unique value by XES unless the LTE size is set excessively high (1G). I understand that DB2 hash...
    over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    With out installing symphony binaries , we can make compute server with copying of entire compute working symphony directory

    Hello IBM, we make symphony compute server with out installing ibm symphony binaries with we can copy entire working symphony directory from working compute host. copy bashrc and ssh keys then you can start the compute server with ego service Ex: ...
    about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

    "DBRM load module cross-reference feature" be incorporate into Db2 Administration Tool

    As of April 30th, of 2020, IBM Db2 Bind Manager got  'end of service' and would not be supported anymore. Some Bind Manager Function were integrated to the IBM Db2 Administration Tool v12.1 but "DBRM load module cross-reference fea...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

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