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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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Provide detailed information about User Exit interface in product manual

Some of the IBM software products such as IMS, Db2 and Db2 HPU, etc. provide User Exit interface to enhance the product's capability to customers' particular requirements. Such products usually have a corresponding chapter or appendix in their pro...
over 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Dependency on systemd added in DB2 11.1.1.1 prevents installation in RHEL 7.3 docker container

Idea created for the RFE closed wrongly - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=103478 21 vote(s) as of Mar 13, 2019 We use Docker containers to perform automated testing of our products on various prerequisite s...
over 6 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered

soamview app long output

First of all, the request is for Symphony 7.1.1 but there is no such version in the drop down menu so I select 7.1. The current command line output of "soamview app" gives a truncated output to end user if the field of SSM HOST or CONSUMER is too ...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Delivered

WSG Service needs to support external SSL certs

Unfortunately, current Symphony (including upto 7.2.1) doesn't support importing an external certificate for WSG service. We encourage to raise an RFE as soon as possible so that IBM dev will start implement accordingly. https://www.ibm.com/develo...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Delivered

Version tolerance on the IDAA stored procedures & NPS Code

We find the lack of version tolerance on the IDAA stored procedures (especially on SYSPROC.ACCEL_UPDATE_SOFTWARE) and as well as on the NPS code extremely difficult during migration. We would like to see that fixed as soon as possible. 1) We shoul...
over 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Alignment to ORX Universal Codes

ORX is an external risk repository provider. In the ORX events are coded and represented as EL0100, but in the IBM Openpages ORM Loss screen, e.g. EL0100 appears as EL01. That is the zeroes are deleted and not recognized. This results in additiona...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Delivered

Prevent LSF from dispatching jobs to problematic hosts consistently

Some jobs are dispatched to a host and failed because the communication between MBATCHD and SBATCHD is failed. The host keeps in OK status and the jobs keep dispatching to the host, which makes the job can not run for a long time. The communicatio...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Jobs that get into PSUSP state because they reached MAX_JOB_REQUEUE cannot be killed by an appropriate JOB_CONTROL mechanism

Answer from PMR: For the PSUSP jobs JOB_CONTROL can not work on PSUSP job. We have checked the source code in these days and found that 1. LSF doesn't set any environment variable when a job reaches its requeue limit and be put into PSUSP status 2...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Add schema support to DVS

In our test environments we have the same Db2 tables on the same Db2 subsystem under different schemas. This allows for multiple teams to be testing against different sets of data, and potentially different version of table DDL at the same time. B...
over 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Heartbeat messages are not available in EP if using delimited format

1. As far as including schema changes in EP messages – at this time they don't have a pressing need so I would say you don't have to worry about that. However, they do want/need to see heartbeat messages. The manual says heartbeat messages are n...