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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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Provide value for MAXTEMPS parm in percentage of total dasd space and create 2 separated options for sort and dgtt workfiles

The introduction of new parameter MAXTEMPS, to avoid the situation where one task monopolize all temporary tablespaces space, with only an absolute space value as an option leaks flexibility. 1) We need to have two parameters, one for sort areas a...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow Multi-Key Deletes from Parent Tables

Optim Data Growth currently has a restriction in place to disallow using a multi-key delete strategy on a Parent table. If you attempt to delete more than one key at a time, Optim will issue a severe warning code and then default the key limit to ...
almost 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

CDC shouldn't require a cleanup of staging store and transaction queues to refresh a table already in scope

On a shared scrape instance, we noticed that if we need to refresh a table (or add one to replication scope), with rule based replication the start of the subscription (for refresh) will fail if there's an open transaction on the table. From the m...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

keeping track on changes of SYSACCEL.SYSACCELERATEDTABLES

we would like to have SYSACCEL.SYSACCELERATEDTABLES as system temporal table, adding the user who did the change - so that we can see, who enabled/disabled a table, who removed or added a table (and when)... and who loaded a table (better would be...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to work with page size other than 16K for xml tablespace

Today, xml table space must work with page size of 16K. We are asking the ability for all pagesizes, especially 32k to make the i/o more efficient.
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Send IFCID 317 data to SMF when stmts leaves cache

There is currently no way to get the text of a dynamic SQL statement when it leaves the cache. If one has IFCID 316 turned on, one can collect the SQL usage metrics in SMF, but not the text. One can get the statement text if one uses the EXPLAIN s...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow control of bufferpool selection on implicit tablespace create

Currently if you issue a CREATE TABLE and just specify a DATABASE, an implicit tablespace is created. It only uses the default bufferpool set at installation, panel DSNTIP1. Since the database is known, the default bufferpool specified for the dat...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Suggest legal member names in DCLGEN dialog

The DCLGEN dialog provides the table name as member name, even though the name might be illegal as membername. In our shop we have underscore characters in tablenames. There is no hint for the developer that this might not work https://bigblue.aha...
over 3 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Oracle Fusion ERP connector tools

I would like to get a live data connection directly from Oracle Fusion rather than export into tables etc.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Remove the OBID limitations in the workfile database

Aapplication threads that perform OPEN / FETCH / CLOSE many many times in a loop without performing a COMMIT can exhaust the OBID limit and suffer SQLCODE -497 From a recent SR....... We see in the dump a SELECT statement using insensitive scrolla...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration