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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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Provide a means to quiesce individual TCH Connectors without causing timeouts

We need a way to quiesce individual connectors so TCH no longer sends us items on that connector. Stopping them in IIB would have that effect, but any messages TCH sends to that connector's queue will time out, causing failed transactions. We need...
about 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / TCH RTP 0 Future consideration

Support Postgres DBAlias via pr0cnfg on Linux

Per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iotdm/11.3?topic=tasks-syntax-keywords, the pr0cnfg command only supports adding DBAliases for Oracle and UDB DBMS types on Linux. This means that we must use Windows if we want to use Optim Data Privacy to mask Pos...
over 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Ensure "egosh resource open" truly open a host to take new tasks by default

When Symphony opens a host, the common sense understanding of it is "open" means the host is open to "business" i.e. to new workload. However, the current Symphony host open feature is so that, if SOAM_CLOSE_NODE_GRACEFULLY=Y also true, then hosts...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Future consideration

Supporting block listing in Conductor Spark 2.3 and later

Blacklisting of hosts that had certain number of tasks or executor failures due to various reasons. This entails blocking hosts from taking more tasks and recording and notifying users for further investigation. This will also mean to reschedule f...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

dynamically move nodes from a resource group to another by the means of updating node attributes

Background: today, it's hard to move nodes from one RG to another one using dynamically selection of hosts based on arttributes. We can tag a node with an attribute, but changing its value requires one to change ego.conf, remove the host from the ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

SQL Engine enhancement to support "Db2 mode" SQL syntax rules

(This IDEA item was written based on my own experience in DVM POC test at customer site.) In DVM, SQL syntax rules are based on ANSI-92 standard, not on Db2 for z/OS rules, even in the case where DVM virtual table is defined on Db2 for z/OS table....
over 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration