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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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Improve the User Interface of SPSS to be as User Friendly as JMP

Making the user interface do more and easier to use would broaden the market for SPSS. Some examples of things you can do in the user interface of JMP that would be good to add to SPSS: Automatically name dummy variables to reflect the different v...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

After START DB2 LIGHT(YES), provide new status messages while waiting for indoubt thread resolution

When DB2 is restartet using the LIGHT(YES) or LIGHT(CASTOUT) clause and indoubt URs exist, DB2 issues message DSNR052I at the end of restart. After this message, there is no acitvity driven by DB2 itself, that allows a monitoring or identifying wh...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improving QREP online operation

ABC(Agriculture Bank of China) have implemented A-A based on QREP. Due to its huge number of data volume, the maintenance related to A-A is extreme complex. The more easy operation of QREP the more maintenance convenience.1. In some case, certain ...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Operator updates less aggressive restart of instance pods

Subscriptions offer the possibility to choose between automatic and manual update approval. Choosing automatic results in direct updates of operators as soon as the subscription is updated. In our case, automatic update approval results in updatin...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Increase the limit of 100 ckpts entries in BSDS

BACKOUT YES specifies the recovery of objects to a prior point in time by a log-only backout. No image copy is restored, it uses the log to backout changes made since the log point that is specified in the TOLOGPOINT or TORBA options. So we sugges...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Installer to identify active DataStage processes

While installing patch on DataStage it took 5hrs to complete the installation . After debugging it is found out that there are active processes hung the patch installation . As part of patch installation we set maintenance mode ON . During install...
over 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Stop Auto Restart

Setting that will give Cloud Administrators the ability to stop an auto restart in order for Cloud Ops to collect logs to pinpoint the specific problem more effectively.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dynamically change IFL quantity assigned to an LPAR without restarting DB2

The IFL quantity assigned to an LPAR can be set to a certain number in the configuration screen but there is also an option to enter a number of ‘reserved’ IFLs. It was explained that the reserved amount would require restarting the internal Db2wh...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Temp folder when using TM1Web should clear itself periodically by PASS.

When using TM1Web in some projects, Excel sheets that are published in a web application create temp files when they are opened. These are generated in "C:\Program Files\ibm\cognos\tm1web\webapps\tm1web\excelsheet", i.e. in the installation direct...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

BigSql Strengthening on node failure

BigSql is built upon db2 database but it thus miss a major architecture philosophy of Hadoop:" handle failure "If you launch a query and one of the designated worker node fails (hardware failure) then the request fails instead of being restarted o...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration