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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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CLOSE NEVER - Avoid pseudo-close for active datasets and in-memory objects, to avoid sync I/O due to XI

PROBLEM: Our shop has an active 10-way data-sharing environment and we have been fighting for some time to get our group bufferpool Sync/XI hit ratios up above 90%. We appear to be fighting "pseudo-close" in this endeavor. According to our co...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

sec_ego_ext_plugin log rollover

For the sec_ego_ext_plugin.a on Sym7.1.2 (and CwS2.2.0/CwS2.2.1) ego version 3.5/3.6, theere does not seem to be a feature supporting log rollover under $EGO_LOGDIR/ego_ext_plugin_client.log and $EGO_LOGDIR/ego_ext_plugin_server.log? They are beco...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1.2 0 Planned for future release

Enable dynamic selection of Parameterset Valuefiles in Sequences

I want to have the possibility to dynamically choose which Valuefile of a Parameterset i use when starting a Job/Sequence inside a Sequence. Currently you can only Propagate the Valuefile choosen when starting the Calling Sequence or choose a fixe...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

DB2 for z/OS Statistics Interval allow at 1 second

DB2 for z/OS Statistics trace interval minimum value is not granular enough for some diagnostic situations. Allowing it to be set a a more granular level would be helpful (lower interval).
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Semi-responsive cubeviews

!!See attached document to view the screenshots!! Idea Details: Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points, PAW allows authors to create books that contains views whose grid are fully responsive (which means that the gri...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Disable the approve Button if the user is not added as a Team Administrator

we can see the approve button is still enable, even though the member is not added as a part of Team Administrator. Also few more observations, 1. Even though the additional reviewer can review the Pull request , but if the same person is not adde...
over 3 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide a method to accurately obtain package executions counts from SMF records

SMF record information for number of times a DB2 package executed is incorrect. As an example, when a package is executed via a thread 10 times DB2 records the SMF information as 1. Our TDS tables are built using SMF information. We use TDS packag...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Enahnce db2pd -dbptnmem command for clarity

In command db2pd -dbptnmem result Real Memory on the system is not displayed, and Memory Limit is meant to represent Instance Memory. Please enhance the command as follows for clarity: 1 - the Real Memory on the system should also be displayed in ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

change in the way graceful exits are handled/reported

When LSF sends kill signal to job, based on the time job takes to complete, it sometimes return "0" exit code and sometimes non-zero. This leads to diff message being return by LSF commands. In this RFE I would like to address ::1. What exit code ...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Jupyter Notebook Migration

Logged on behalf of customer Epsilon: We have feedback from one of our development directors Both fall into Enhancement category 1. Add ability to export DSX notebook as a python script (basically it would just strip all the markdown formatting a...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Functionality already exists