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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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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:


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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,


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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


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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.

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



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Search results: Db2 for z/OS

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API to write dictionary to log

A number of our common customers run DB2 utilities from third party vendors and IBM replication solutions. They are requesting that our LOAD and REORG utilities write the old dictionary pages to the log for later retrieval by a replication product...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Allow BIND EXPLAIN(ONLY) use virtual indexes

It would be very helpful if Db2 allowed (optionally) to use virtual indexes when BIND with EXPLAIN(ONLY) is performed. This can be an additional BIND parameter on whether or not use virtual indexes. This option will eliminate/reduce a need in thir...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Recover Statistics based on Statistic History Tables

In most cases an up-to-date RUNSTATS will result in better execution plans and SQL performance. But there are also cases, where new statistics result in worser execution plans and performance. For static SQL we have many possibilities to control t...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DSNHDECP usage

The DSNHDECP modules is currently used in our shop and needs to be created for every DB2 subsystem, or data sharing group. This means that we need to create individual SDSNEXIT libraries for each subsystem. We used to have one SDSNEXIT which held ...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration