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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Enable rebind of packages after a reorg in Automation Tool

I want to use Automation Tool to reorganise a tablespace to materialise a change to a UTS. I will issue the ALTER TABLESPACE MAXPARTITIONS nnn statement during the working day, which will put the tablespace into the AREOR state. I have a job profi...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Provisioning rule required to remove KEY LABELS for test instances

Devops Experience applications are created from a production, or like-production source. In production we use pervasive encryption, and so some tables have a KEY LABEL defined and make use of ICSF and data encryotion. In test environments we do no...
over 3 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1

DOE - DDL protection issue

Protection of Master DDL (tables etc.) owned by application teams and how DOE can successfully and fully restrict changes to only by ‘owners’ of those objects. Example: •A DOE Team is created e.g. ABC, assigned to an Environment and ABC team m...
over 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Automation Tool incorrectly building RUNSTAT jobs when TS has NPSI being RUNSTAT

Unfortunately the product has been generating jobs incorrectly from the getgo for RUNSTATS. When using load balancing across 20 jobs, the partitions should be spread across the 20 jobs. This works when the NPSI is not having RUNSTATS. When the NPS...
over 7 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

For RPN TS, each partition reorged need a separate IC tape drive, need a way to limit the number of tape drives per iteration of REORG for the IC

If 65 partitions of a RPN with NPSIs are being reorg at the same time, 65 IC tape drives would be required. That is excessive and probably all shops can't support that. Even when no NPSIs, this would be a problem. HAA generates LISTPARTS 4096 when...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enable Form Based Approach

Need a form based approach for Users to quickly build the Objects using DOE and can avoid overhead of writing DDL's
over 4 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Alerting/Notification Feature

Notification has to be sent to mail id's or Groups or Team Level when a request status is updated in the stages involved
over 4 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Migrate changes from Schema to Schema

Need option to rollout similar changes to multiple schema in a single workflow
over 4 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Capability to choose the type of Utility to execute via Panel at Object Level

RUNSTATS / REORG / REBUILD / COPY are frequently used utilities and User should be able to choose which utility to execute on the Object via panel as per the requirement
over 4 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Include mask for DFSPARM

One of our customers working with REORG jobs built using Automation tool 4.3 have normally problems of "Sort Capacity exceeded". In order to solve this problem, our customer is using a customized skeleton HAAREORJ with syntaax: //DFSPARM DD * OPTI...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration