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).


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



ADD A NEW IDEA

Search results: Db2 for z/OS

Showing 295 of 5230

Add utility eventid to IFCID 23,24 and 25

The new utility tables have eventid, but this isn't in the utility audit ifcids, so by adding it, then gives easy matching between any utility audit table and the system utility tables Also the system utility table could have gaps due to data not ...
2 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

Deposit some information about latch status in HVCOMMON to avoid Db2 abend

Db2 abended due to EOM in one of its threads (in this case an online REORG). The request is that some more information about thread status is saved in common storage (e.g. HVCOMMON) to help SSSC to cleanup the job and to avoid that it must take do...
about 14 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Submitted

SQL function LAG (and other passthrough OLAP functions) – implement natively Db2 Z !

SQL function LAG (and other passthrough OLAP functions) – implement natively Db2 Z ! Db2 Z provides some OLAP functions that are only available as passthrough functions that are only available via an “accelerator” https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-f...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Submitted

Change Load Backout YES delete log process

During execution of LOAD RESUME YES BACKOUT YES SHRLEVEL NONE LOG NO DISCARDS 1, if 1 duplicate row is funded, all rows loaded will be backed out, regardless if there was just 1 duplicate. DB2 call Data Manager back out all the other rows writing ...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

ARCRETN - Managing by DFSMS - SMS Management Class

In a situation related to replication delay, it was necessary to keep the Db2 archive log longer than its current retention period. The subsystem parameter ARCRETN was set as 17 days as in Management Class. The planning was to alter the retention ...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow ALTER TABLE xxx COLUMN yyy SET NOT NULL

The ability to change nearly everything about a column is really cool in Db2. Sadly, the one thing that you cannot easily change is the NULLability of any given column. This is definitely a requirement all over the place and currently can only be ...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Generate Check Data job at database level

It is currently possible to generate a Check Data job at tablespace level in the db2 catalogue tool by going to the tablespace and using the U.KD line command on the tablespace. However, what if you want to perform a check data on all tablespaces ...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Generating unload and load jobs using the db2 tool

If you go to a tablespaces in the db2 catalogue and use the U.U line command, you can generate an Unload Job for that tablespace where the JCL specifies an unload file and a SYSPUNCH control card file. However, what if you want to unload the data ...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL issues a message, TOTAL SYNC I/O DELAY FOR BP?? = ?????????? MILLISECONDS.

We are currently are running a bufferpool simulation in production. When I issue the command: -DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL(BP40) DETAIL(INTERVAL) The following message is issued: DSNB432I -DPP2 SIMULATED BUFFER POOL ACTIVITY - AVOIDABLE READ PAGE MISSES - ...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add utility eventid to IFCID 23,24 and 25

The new utility tables have eventid, but this isn't in the utility audit ifcids, so by adding it, then gives easy matching between any utility audit table and the system utility tablesAlso the system utility table could have gaps due to data not b...
13 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Submitted

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.