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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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DB2 Purescale with Secure Linux Boot on RHEL enabled: should ship already signed IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) kernel modules

Customer needs that Secure boot is enabled and it is not possible in any Purescale Version. We opened case TS018965073 for this issue and said that to be enabled Secureboot means to sign GPFS packages and involve several support teams
10 months ago in Db2 / pureScale Not under consideration

Mutual TLS/SSL for the AVRO Schema Registry Connection

Currently, the connection to the AVRO Schema Registry supports SSL/TLS connection but not mutual, using client certificates or other ways to authenticate the client system. It should be possible, the same way it is for the rest of connections, MCI...
10 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical Under review

IFC processing - Avoid writing a LOGREC for an expected 0C4 abend.

Reduce number of entries for 0C4 abends in LOGREC. For instance 0C4-38 abends at Csect DSNWAACT Offset X'1118' is an expected abend and thus it shouldn't be written in a logrec. This abend0C4 is expected and DB2 FRR recovery routine retry the move...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review
233 VOTE

Bursting reports with email notification

Would like the ability to burst PAW reports as PDF.Would like the ability to burst PAX reports as Excel Slice, Excel Snap-shot or PDF.eg. TM1 Perspectives Print Report featureWith added email notifications and ability to email burst reports by rea...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics Planned for future release

Install TM1py directly on PA Cloud

Currently, the IBM policy does not allow installation of third-party applications on the IBM cloud servers. TM1py is a robust, proven, application-specific, community-supported python library that should be allowed as an exception to this rule. Th...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics Future consideration

Extract automated lineage from some IFPC Command Tasks (unused, chmod, cp, mv, rm)

This is a follow up to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DATALIN-I-60 that asks for automated extraction of all Command Tasks invoked by informatica power center. Since IFPC developers can invoke any executable in the command task, it is technically dif...
12 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Dashboard for StreamSets

Problem:Using the Operations Dashboard and Topologies does not give business an over all view of the platform usage. Would like to see the following on a dashboard:GroupsUsersJobsScheduled TasksSequencesFragmentsConnectionsRecords (rows transferre...
12 days ago in StreamSets Submitted

DB2 Load failure - unable to drain - issue -DIS USE in addition to -DIS CLAIMERS

When a DB2 load utility fails due to being unable to perform a drain, only a DIS CLAIMERS is issued at the end of the retries to show the correlation id of what was preventing the drain. Our shop's DDF work is categorized under common correlation ...
12 days ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS Submitted

Row command I should show LASTUSED info for plans

From Db2 FL V13R1M507 the column LASTUSED is populated for plans. This information should be show when you use row command in the catalog navigation for plans
13 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS Planned for future release

Option to manually stop/ deactivate scheduled jobs in CCR

Currently in our production environment there is a database optimized scheduled job in CCR setup by user which has been resigned from the team and the job is still scheduled to run despite the user is removed. This would pose audit issues and lice...
13 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted