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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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Sorting large amounts of data sequentially

We executed a query where a large amount of data had to be sorted. The execution stopped with SQLCODE -904 (temp. storage exceeded). This query was executed with DEGREE 1. When we executed the same query with DEGREE ANY, the query was executed by ...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Data set security to be inherited from data source security

When a data set is created (from a package), it should inherits the security of the data source on which the package is based. For example, a DataAccessRole with Read, Write, Execute, Traverse is defined as security on the data source. When crea...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow more granular control over what SQL will result in Statistics Profiles updates

Unnecessary statistics can increase RUNSTATS collection elapsed and CPU time, sometimes exponentially, and impact BIND/PREPARE performance because the optimizer must read in all available statistics to determine what is and is not useful for each ...
11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Expand IFCID 258 to include the last available partition (based on MAXPARTITIONS) of a partitioned table spaces.

IBM already produces IFCID 258 when an extent is taken. Would IBM may consider the expansion into the last available partition to be a noteworthy event or either inform the MAXPARTITION value. So, the percentage of available partitions can be calc...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

db2look with -printdbcfg must support parameters with "automatic" value

To clone a database and all its objects IBM recommend to use the db2look utility. If you use the -printdbcfg to clone the db configuration too the db2look utility generate the parameter values in the update commands but without the "automatic" val...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

Bitemporal tables and missing highest quantiles

If a user issues FOR BUSINESS_TIME AS OF clause against a bitemporal table, DB2 translates it to a where clause with two range predicates against business_time columns. In our system following situation occurs quite frequently: 1) At all time...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration

SSO Enhancement Request for IBM Safer Payments

Summary: Enhancement Request for IBM SaferPayments: PCI Need: FIS need IBM SaferPayments to support federated authentication/authorization such as oAuth2.0/OpenID Connect (OIDC)/SAML Details: IBM SaferPayments SSO supports only a basic HTTP header...
3 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration

Externalize IDAA internal configuration / tuning parameters visible by customer

Wells Fargo’s Audit Department requires monitoring of configuration parameters. At least monthly (in Database Operation case its daily), Enterprise Compute Services (ECS) Drift Identification Automation compares deployed configuration data to the ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Working with private objects

I am trying to come up with a reliable and good solution for the common problem: how do you migrate private objects from 1 TM1 model to another. There is V11 and V12 support that should be feasible. We are currently migrating several on-premise cu...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need to support inplace reorg on partitioned table with global indexes

This is critical in a 2 sense; 1) Performance The customer has many range-partitioned table with global indexes and most of them left unreorganized because INPLACE REORG on Inplace reorg on range-partitioned table with a global index is not suppor...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration