Skip to Main Content
IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


Status Not under consideration
Workspace Db2 for z/OS
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 3, 2023

Reference to the BSDS for example the full image copies of the CATALOG and DIRECTORY DB2 tablespaces which are not in SYSCOPY

There are several (4 in DB2 v12) catalog and directory tablespaces for which the full image copies are not referenced in the SYSCOPY.
Thus, during a DB2 cat/dir recovery (recovery exercise or other...) these FICs are searched directly in the DB2 logs, which can take a long time, depending on the volume of DB2 logs to be scanned...
In order to avoid this, would it not be possible to record these FICs in the BSDS for example associated with a zparm parameter which would set the retention of this information in the BSDS?
In case of a recovery in a REAL environment, it would save valuable time and reduce the downtime of DB2
Thank you for your interest in this idea.

Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool
  • Admin
    Janet Figone
    Reply
    |
    Mar 21, 2024

    Dear Patrick, Thank you for submitting this enhancement request. Db2 has the capability to locate the SYSCOPY logs for these catalog/directory objects without doing an exhaustive scan of the logs. Please open a case for further investigation if you are seeing performance issue related to this locate/lookup operation.

    Sincerely,

    The Db2 for z/OS team