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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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Eliminate x-locks on CREATE INDEX DEFER YES to improve concurrency

This is similar to DB24ZOS-I-1114 and DB24ZOS-I-1689. When attempting to create an index with CREATE INDEX DEFER YES, there should be no need to lock packages that are dependent on the table. Requiring an x-lock doesn't seem necessary. With phase-...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Removal of an unnecesary system crash due to must-complete or latch holding agent - RC 00F3040A

Today, there is an intentional system crash designed and exploited with an abend code 00F3040A when an agent abending in system is in so called must-complete state or is holding a latch. We have been running a case TS006198341 where our system cra...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

filter specific IDAA messages from being delivered to DB2.

All IDAA messages, once delivered to DB2, are wrapped in a DSNX881I message ID and displayed within DB2 and on the z/OS logs. In our case there was a VERY lengthy message of type /W3005/ which is delivered to us no less than 15 times a day for eac...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Allow a WHERE clause for ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE to delete data while moving a table

One of the most painful things to do is to delete a huge amount of data. One workaround for this is to export the data needed and then LOAD/REPLACE back into the same table, but this requires an outage of the table to accomplish. If a WHERE clause...
about 5 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

There should be a Db2 utility to delete rows from SYSIBM.SYSOBJEVENTS and SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES

Currently there is no to delete rows from SYSIBM.SYSOBJEVENTS and SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES and these tables will keep growing. All sites with these tables enabled require this. The utility could be an extension of the functionality of "MODIFY RECOVERY"...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Instantiated temp tables with full functionality

The SAP data dictionary supports the creation of temp tables. This allows application developers to speed up the processing by temporarily storing result sets of queries in the database and later process them. The data is only kept until commit. T...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enabling Restrict on Drop clause logic in create table command for db2 LUW

There is a feature called "Restrict on Drop" that should be used by the database designers while creating a table for the db2 LUW database 1) If a database designer uses this "Restrict on Drop" clause for the creation of the table then the tabl...
about 6 years ago in Db2 7 Not under consideration

When DB2 writes a message to the DB2 Log, DB2 could also optionally write the contents of the message to a new IBM Catalog Table SYSIBM.DB2_Messages or a user defined table.

WHY THIS IS A GOOD IDEA Many of our DB2 subsystems and members remain active for several months or more. Searching for a DB2 Message can take a long time in SDSF when analysing and diagnosing problems. Having all of the DB2 Messages in a Table mak...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Remote storage and datalake tables for Db2 on AIX

The feature is already available in Db2 for a while, but only supported in (Intel) Linux environments. Many large customers have their Db2 workloads on Power/AIX, benefitting from the platform. To keep Db2 as core component of lakehouse architectu...
10 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Not under consideration

Make Dynamic Plan Stability really stable

We use dynamic sql now in nearly all of our applications. It is essential for our shop that the access paths for dynamic sql are as stable as possible. So we will use the new V12 feature "dynamic plan stability". If you look into the manuals and i...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 18 Not under consideration