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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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PureScale high ports statically defined

We require consistent and specific ports to be used for PureScale inter-member communications. It would be ideal if this can be configurable. Currently PureScale requires us to open all high ports >=1024, as per documentation https://www.ibm.co...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Delivered

The volumes.mount_path attribute in the Spark Jobs API is mandatory

The volumes.mount_path attribute in the Spark Jobs API is mandatory, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=jobs-spark-api-syntax-parameters-return-codes This should be an optional attribute to make it consistent with the usage o...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

The Spark job should use the mount_path attribute of the storage volume by default

The volumes.mount_path attribute in the Spark Jobs API is mandatory, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=jobs-spark-api-syntax-parameters-return-codes This should be an optional attribute to make it consistent with the usage o...
almost 4 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

Command line for IA Console remove/add data source

In support of IA project metadata supporting data rules we schedule weekly imam imports for sources which are data sources for the IA project. There are occasions when the imam changes do not propagate and cannot be viewed when inspecting the sche...
about 4 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 2 Delivered

Enhance the message "table XXXX not found" during running load Utility.

We actually want DB2 load utilities to display consistent error messages that are easy to find. It should definitely be an ‘E’rror, not a ‘W’arning or ‘I’nformational message’, but it should also contains something like ‘UNSCCESSFUL’, or ‘ERROR’, ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Enhancement for DB2 z/OS database backup/recovery

BUSINESS REQUIREMENT Database Recovery is probably the most critical area for DBAs and Application Support teams. As important as new features and performance are, Recovery is absolutely crucial – Production data loss is unacceptable, long databas...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Extend the configuration control statements for Db2-supplied routines for program DSNTRIN with APPLCOMPAT a

Program DSNTRIN give the ability to pass some configuration control statement for DB2-supplied-routines as per the doc: Configuration control statements for Db2-supplied routines Configuration control statements supply the basic input for the DSNT...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Single Consistent Tool for Defining and Administering QRep Subscriptions

Consistent and comprehensive client tools are required for defining, administering and operating queue replication. Today the Replication Center and Replication Dashboard exist, and there are some functions that neither of these support and have t...
almost 9 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Provide UDF functions on an EC2-hosted PostgresSQL DB

SHORT-TERM (1-2 months): Ideally, we are looking for EC2 support for PostgreSQL versions 11 and 12 . To be honest, we do not need the full set of functions. What we require ASAP is the following subset of functions: HASH Provider with sha-256 - We...
over 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

In IDA, provide "Space Evenly" buttons along with the "Align" buttons

When creating a diagram, it is common to have groups of symbols that need to be arranged evenly, so that the spacing is consistent between the symbols. Currently there is no way to do that automatically, requiring the user to attempt to do that by...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration