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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    DB2 object lock - return code on the ESS Normal Call Exit interface

    In the case where an object lock is not available for an External SubSystem ( ESS ) origin thread, DB2 should not return the 'temporary error" return code on the ESS Normal Call Exit interface.It would be acceptable to make this optional. Justific...
    about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    A Sort-Merge Join should be considered when joining on a SUBSTR expression

    When tuning the following query, I saw that changing the "INNER JOIN" to a "FULL JOIN" caused it to perform many times better (which changed the join from a NLJ to a SMJ): SELECT ARCHIVE_STRT.LOCAL_TS AS LOCAL_TS_STRT, TIMESTAMPDIFF(2, CAST(ARCHIV...
    about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Self-signed certificate or no certificate for compute nodes

    This is for Sym 7.3.1 or later versions. We need to have TLS enabled for all the communications in order to run Symphony in AWS securely. All the management nodes and masters will have a proper signed certificate. Communications to mgmt nodes and ...
    about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Functionality already exists

    Class 2 In-DB2 CPU times are often zero

    With DB2's current IFI implementation, class 2 times are updated when a class 2 event occurs. Consequently, when IFCID 148 is requested for a thread that is In-DB2, no CPU times can be seen until the SQL statement ends. IFCID 148 must reflect the ...
    about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    prohibit alter/create tablespace not logged

    Performing create/alter tablespace to be not logged might be considered a security problem.A solution for this can be a new ZPARM or a special privilege (in RACF & Db2) that will prohibit anyone from doing so, even SYSADM/DBADM etc. Another "c...
    about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Audit Policy enhancement for Global Temporary Tables

    Audit policies are used frequently for us to track for a month the Group IDs read, write, etc of standard Tables of Type P,C,T. We would like be able to use this ability to Audit use of created Global Temporary Tables of Type G as well. This would...
    about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    JSON Indexing on non-inline LOBs

    Currently IBM allows the creation of indexes for JSON docs stored in an inline LOB but not a non-inline LOB. We want to make full use of JSON docs in DB2 for zOS. We wanted to avoid having to move more apps to MongoDB.
    about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Display info about stopped Stored Procedure

    We have a few Stored procedures that has been stopped intentionally waiting for them to be dropped. We want to keep them in a stopped state for a period of time so that we can be sure no one use them. One example of this is when we rewrite externa...
    about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

    [Workload Monitoring and Management] SOAM - Package - Remove obsolete/inconsistent SI packages from compute node (Epic32879)

    Even if customer removed consumer, SI package corresponding to the consumer would be still remained on compute node. Symphony should be able to remove obsolete SI package from all compute nodes.There is an idea to remove obsolete packages.- Set fl...
    about 12 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

    [Installation and Upgrade] Install - New Installation type: Management Console and Management Client

    Currently, there are the following three installation types only.- Management Node- Compute Node- Client- Symphony DE But it's better to have new installation type "Management Console" or "Management Client".It contains ego/soam commands, but it d...
    about 12 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

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