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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Support index on expressions for virtual indexes

During the SQL performance tuning for a query having a scalar function (lower case) coded in it, DB2 SQLPA tool was checked to see if there is an option to create a virtual index but since there is no way of creating it in the current version, use...
3 days ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 0 Under review

Implicit TS/IX Objects - Need DDL capability, ALT on IX

Need the ability to enter DDL command and get the DDL. Also ALT command needs to work on implicit IX.
4 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Under review

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.
5 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Content selector length in Workspace

when the book names are long, in the top bar to switch between tabs the names are cut and some dots are showed (attached an example) Ideally we would like to have the ability to change the lenght of the navigation area in the bar to allow to see f...
6 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Under review

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...
7 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

add more columns for job export

from job details view, we can export current in file, but the list of avail columns of the RTM settings -> job export view is limited compared to what we can display in the job detail view and also what's avail in the DB table. Can you please e...
7 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

Change how the indoubt thread display works

Right now, if you are looking at the 3270UI display the field for indoubt threads shows the count of all indoubt threads since DB2 has been started. This is a distraction as it shows there are indoubt threads when they have already been resolved. ...
7 days ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

ALLOW (SOME) UTILITIES TO OPERATE ON TABLESPACE TABLE NAME

I would like it to be easier for developers or other end-users to more easily use some basic Db2 utilities. For example, RUNSTATS or RECOVER with redirected recover functionality. But any utility that only operates on tablespace today, consider al...
11 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Do not start jobs with less than X cores per host

It is useful for when ptiles or slots do not fulfill your needs. Using an example, we have an MPI code that requests 100 cores. We don't tell LSF how to grab those cores, and sometimes it will go out and span across 12 nodes, taking 19 cores on on...
11 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Under review

Return to asset context user left off

Currently when reopening a project the user directly sees the project tab contextually related to the last opened project page, in particular: Assets tab (All asset mode) when Assets or an Asset page was last open Jobs tab when Jobs or a Job page ...
11 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review