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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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DR4A V1.2 Sequence not replicated

After insert on capture side on table with autonumber column, data is inserted, but sequence is not replicated on apply side. You can follow the following steps to recreate the scenario. CREATE LARGE TABLESPACE "TSD_DBA_TEST" IN DATABASE PARTIT...

Event ID 6645 Conundrum

Ideally every CDC Event ID should be unique and have a Unique description or Event Text. What we noticed is that the event ID 6645 could mean any of the following scenarios: 1. Exception occurred during replication. Exception at continue reading I...
almost 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

New feature to disable rules during data load process

Pain Point: P&L cube does allocations by rule. During data load of 1 million cells, the allocation N: only rules and N: & C: feeders fire for each cell causing unacceptably long load durations.. Workaround: Even splitting the load process ...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Do not Add the Planning Analytics COM Addin to MS Word

When we install Planning Analytics for Excel, 2 Excel Addin and 1 COM addin are added to Excel However the COM Addin "IBM Framework for Office" is also added to Word Users are facing various problems in Word because of this Addin. Performance issu...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improved field calculation engine that calculates and stores values prior to List view.

Require improved Computed Fields calculation engine that carries out field calculation and stores in order for already stored values to be read and displayed in a list view (so they can be sorted by) rather than sorting on the fly. Currently: 1....
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Take job size into account in historical run_time

LSF's fairshare includes a RUN_TIME parameter that can track the total time accumulated by a user / group's completed jobs. By weighting this parameter, a user's historic jobs can be accounted for in determining their job priority. This factor doe...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Improving job status problem due to defunct process

Sometimes, defunct can occur in job processes for a variety of reasons. For example, 29460 below is one of the processes of some job. ps -ef | grep bg92 bg92.pa+ 29460 1 1 2022 ? 08:03:02 [Novas] <defunct> And if a defunct process occurs, L...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 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 ...
almost 9 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Enable summary logging instead of millions of lines with the identical content

Just check our ticket TS003271613. I made the propsal in German: Bei gleichlautenden Fehlermeldungen sollte TM1 statt Millionen Zeilen zu loggen, nur 1 oder 2 Zeilen loggen, in denen sinngemäß steht "logged 2.258.291 times the following". Das würd...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Remove "obvious" deficiency in SSM scheduling when there are more than 10K open session #

When the Open Session number exceeds IBM's baseline of 10K, we can see Symphony SSM scheduling has an obvious "deficiency": Running task # starts to become much lower than the allocated slots to SSM bouncing between even 0 and very low; SSM busy o...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Planned for future release