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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.

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Currently Committed for UPDATE

In DB2 10 for z/OS a new feature allowing currently committed data was deployed, enabling an application reading data to have the option of viewing previously committed work. This allowed for greater application concurrency, comparability with Ora...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DB2 V10 Object rename improvement

Slow object renames in DB2 V10. Need to add index to the SYSTABAUTH table. Changed function from V9 to V10 - Removed links Info from PMR 19771: These 'internal queries' don't go through normal access path selection. They have a 'hard coded' access...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Preform "EXCHANGE" to "X" tables in one unit of work

add a feature to the sql exchange command to enable one unit of work for several tables.
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

SQLTable() does not like escape sequences in catalog name parameter

My application uses the IBM Informix ODBC driver.Issue with respect to ODBC call SQLTables.As per ODBC specifications for SQLTables, the catalogname can have escape sequences ('\').Say I have a database: db_en. In my call to SQLTables,char dbname[...
about 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Process times out due to locks held by another process. Have to resubmit the process.

Process times out due to locks held by another process. Have to resubmit the processes. The first process has an exclusive lock on a row, the second process is trying to run an UPDATE statement (see below) and times out because it can't get an UPD...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Merge in IDAA from multiple sources

Would like ability to merge into a single table in IDAA from multiple source subsystems
over 12 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Prevent read/write (RW) access as part of CREATE TABLE

Add a clause on CREATE TABLE that controls what state the table(space) is in immediately after the creation - UT,RO or RW (default)
almost 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IDAA's support of CAST function for Unicode to EBCDIC conversion.

1. Product: IDAA Version 32. Actor: Customers who want to accelerate their EBCDIC query applications and tables using IDAA. 3. Description: Netezza stores data in Unicode UTF-8. Currently we can 'add' and 'load' DB2 for z/OS EBCDIC tables to IDAA,...
about 13 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

IDAA's support of recursive SQL syntax.

1. Product: IDAA Version 32. Actor: Manufacturing customers who have “Parts” table which uses hierarchical navigation, using DB2 for z/OS. 3. Description: At this moment recursive SQL syntax ( recursive common table expression ) is not support...
about 13 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Deferred ALTER support for conversion of segmented TS to UTS-PBR

DB2 10 introduced deferred ALTER support to convert segmented tablespaces to UTS-PBG without an outage to the object. As UTS-PBR is still a viable solution for design of certain tables, we would like to see deferred ALTER support expanded to allow...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered